Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Passion, Errors

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

• Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Understanding, Speech

• By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Knowledge, Science, Two

  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.12

• To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Math, Men, Mad

  Thomas Hobbes (1845). ““The” English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.445

• Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Passion, Flames, Understanding

  Thomas Hobbes (2013). “Leviathan”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

• The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

  Thomas Hobbes

  God, Men, Imagination

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