Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes quote The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes quote As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
Thomas Hobbes quote A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes quote Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas Hobbes quote The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes quote Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes quote Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes quote Biography
British philosopher
