Thomas Hobbes

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Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy. Hobbes is remembered today for his work on political philosophy, although he contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history, geometry, physics of gases, theology, ethics, general philosophy, and political science. But nonetheless Hobbes's account of human nature as self-interested cooperation has proved to... full article at wikipedia

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

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

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.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

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