Thomas Hobbes
12 quotations
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
Words are the money of fools.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.