List of Thomas Hobbes Quotes

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Thomas Hobbes
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And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive, that the papacy , is no other than the ghost of the deceased romane empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruines of that heathen power.
Men Empires Dominion
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.
Art Science Skills
The cause of sense, is the external body, or object, which presseth the organ proper to each sense, either immediately, as in thetaste and touch; or mediately, as in seeing, hearing, and smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the brain, and heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because outward, seemeth to be some matter without.
Nature Heart Self
And for incoherent speech, it was amongst the gentiles taken for one sort of prophecy, because the prophets of their oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the pythian oracle at delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of materia prima .
Taken Men Mad
Can it then be doubted, but that god, who is infinitely fine spirit, and withal intelligent, can make and change all species and kind of body as he pleaseth? but i dare not say, that this is the way by which god almighty worketh, because it is past my apprehension: yet it serves very well to demonstrate, that the omnipotence of god implieth no contradiction.
God Intelligent Past
[necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. this concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, god almighty) the decree of god.
May Causality Causes
He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.
Men Thinking Prudent
Nature (the art whereby god hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal. for seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?
Art Nature Spring
The pacts and covenants, by which the parts of this body politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that fiat, or the let us make man, pronounced by god in the creation.
God Men Together
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. for men contend with the living, not with the dead.
Men Competition Praise
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time
Facts Know How Another Time
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased god hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.
Science Men Definitions
  • Born: April 5, 1588
  • Died: December 4, 1679
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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