Words are the money of fools. by Thomas Hobbes | We Heart Quotes

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Words are the money of fools.

- Thomas Hobbes

Other quotes by Thomas Hobbes

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

Religion

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

- Thomas Hobbes

Force

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

- Thomas Hobbes

Heresy Opinion

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

Absurdity Man

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

- Thomas Hobbes

Science Fact

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

- Thomas Hobbes

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