For such is the nature of man, that hows... by Thomas Hobbes | We Heart Quotes

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For such is the nature of man, 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: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance.

- Thomas Hobbes

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Grave

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

- Thomas Hobbes

Horror

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

- Thomas Hobbes

Glory Nothing

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

- Thomas Hobbes

Nature Power Right Man Life

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

- Thomas Hobbes

Desire Sense Mind Life

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

- Thomas Hobbes

Nature Right

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

- Thomas Hobbes

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