Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Philosophy

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  • Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

  • Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

    Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."
  • The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.

    "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 26, 1651.
  • Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

    Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.260, Hackett Publishing
  • Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

    Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.260, Hackett Publishing
  • The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

    Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
  • Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

    Men  
    Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.87, Hackett Publishing
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