Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established social contract theory, the foundation of most later Western political philosophy...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 April 1588
laughter philosophical passion
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
philosophical dark leviathan
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
liberty nasty poor
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
sight shining sun
As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.
nasty life-is
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
passion atheism different
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.
powerful people atheism
In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
atheist atheism pills
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
truth struggle men
Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.
truth lying men
True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.
atheism facts ends
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
propositions
Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.
work men would-be
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.
silence atheism argument
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.