Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Philosophy, Too Late

  Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."

• Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mother, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.260, Hackett Publishing

• Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophy, Men, Names

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

• Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mother, Philosophy, Leisure

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.260, Hackett Publishing

• The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophy, Book, Law

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 26, 1651.

• The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Bible, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

• Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mother, Philosophy, Leisure

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