48 ordspråk av Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes föddes den April 5th 1588 och dog den 4 December 1679 - English philosopher
Mer info via Google eller Bing.
Mer info via Google eller Bing.
 The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. |
| The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. |
| The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. |
| The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. |
| The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental. |
| The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. |
| The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only |
| The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. |
| The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? |
| The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? |
| The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame |
| The world is governed by opinion. |
| There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. |
| They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion |
| Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. |
Number of proverbs are 1469544
varav 1407627 på engelska
Proverb (1469544 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!
Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!
varav 1407627 på engelska
Proverb (1469544 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!
Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!
 |
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!
Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!