48 ordspråk av Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes föddes den April 5th 1588 och dog den 4 December 1679 - English philosopher
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 It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law |
| Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. |
| Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. |
| Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. |
| Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. |
| No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short |
| No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. |
| Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. |
| Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. |
| Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion |
| Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. |
| Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. |
| Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. |
| Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. |
| That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. |
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