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Das Gewissen eines jeden Bürgers ist sein Gesetz.
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Staatstheoretiker, Philosoph, schuf 1651 mit "Leviathan" sein Hauptwerk (England, 1588 - 1679).
Thomas Hobbes · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Thomas Hobbes wäre heute 435 Jahre, 11 Monate, 23 Tage oder 159.238 Tage alt.
Geboren am 05.04.1588 in Westport/Bristol
Gestorben am 04.12.1679 in Hardwick Hall bei Chesterfield
Sternzeichen: ♈ Widder
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Weitere 85 Zitate von Thomas Hobbes
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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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 may be many so wise as themselves.
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The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek peace and follow it.
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The papacy is not other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
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The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
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The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition, and mutual envy of the living.
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The privilege of absurdity, to which no other living creature is subject, but man only.
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The value of all things contracted for is measurable by the appetite of the contractors, and there the just value is that which they be contented to give.
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There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislikeit, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
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They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.
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True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
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Whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good.
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Whereas some have attributed the dominion [of the family] to the man only, as being of the more excellent sex; they misreckon in it. For there is not always that difference of strength, or prudence between the man and the woman, as that the right can be determined without war.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
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Ceux qui approuvent une opinion l'appellent opinion; mais ceux qui la désapprouvent l'appellent hérésie.
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L'intérêt et la crainte sont les principes de la société et toute morale consiste à vivre selon notre bon plaisir.
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L'oisiveté est la mère de la philosophie.