Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Spring

Quotes about: Spring

• All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Spring, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Gert (1972). “Man and Citizen: De Homine and De Cive”, p.114, Hackett Publishing

• For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

  Thomas Hobbes

  Spring, Moving, Watches

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.97

• Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

  Thomas Hobbes

  Art, Nature, Spring

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.9, Broadview Press

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