They that approve a private opinion, cal... by Thomas Hobbes | We Heart Quotes

philosopher Opinion Materialism Heresy Political theorist

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

- Thomas Hobbes

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Storms Future Present Past Mind

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

- Thomas Hobbes

Conscience May Man

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

- Thomas Hobbes

Absurdity Man

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

- Thomas Hobbes

War Time Will

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

- Thomas Hobbes

Power

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

- Thomas Hobbes

Hell is truth seen too late.

- Thomas Hobbes

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