Quotes
Quotes - Hobbes
For words are wise men's counters,--they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
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.
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.
The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. â¢Thomas Hobbes Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. â¢Johann Kaspar Lavater It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. â¢Fred Allen We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Give an inch, he'll take an ell.
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
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.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
