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Thomas Hobbes

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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


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


— Thomas Hobbes


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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.


— Thomas Hobbes


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


— Thomas Hobbes


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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.


— Thomas Hobbes


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Such is the nature of men, 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.


— Thomas Hobbes


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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.


— Thomas Hobbes


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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.


— Thomas Hobbes


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


— Thomas Hobbes


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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


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Although it seems that much of The Elements of Law was composed before the sitting of the Short Parliament there are polemical pieces of the work that clearly mark the influences of the rising political crisis. For example Hobbes argued repeatedly that there are no incorporeal substances and that all things including human thoughts and even God heaven and hell are corporeal matter in motion. Leviathan

In Leviathan Hobbes set out his doctrine of the foundation of states and legitimate governments – originating social contract theory.

His understanding of humans as being matter and motion obeying the same physical laws as other matter and motion remains influential; and his account of human nature as self-interested cooperation and of political communities as being based upon a "social contract" remains one of the major topics of political philosophy. Hobbes was a champion of absolutism for the sovereign but he also developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought: the right of the individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and the state); the view that all legitimate political power must be "representative" and based on the consent of the people; and a liberal interpretation of law which leaves people free to do whatever the law does not explicitly forbid. In addition to political philosophy Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields including history geometry the physics of gases theology ethics and general philosophy.

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