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Thomas Hobbes Quotes
«The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.»
«For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.»
«The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
crowned, deceased, Empire, ghost, papacy, roman, Roman Empire, thereof, The Grave
«He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.»
«Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cardinal, Cardinals, cardinal virtue, Cardinal virtues, fraud
«The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying,
Spirit
| Keywords:
dawns, disembodied, disembodied spirit, embodied
«The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Existence,
Science,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
Arts and, Arts and Sciences, deliverance, handicraft, handicrafts
«I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)