Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. by Thomas Hobbes | We Heart Quotes

Mother philosopher Materialism Political theorist Human nature

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

- Thomas Hobbes

Other quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Force

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

- 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

Words Money Men

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

- Thomas Hobbes

Glory

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

- Thomas Hobbes

Words Men Man

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

- Thomas Hobbes

Error Man

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

- Thomas Hobbes

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