WORDS FROM A GREAT MIND

Thomas Hobbes

English philosopher

Born: 5 April 1588
Died: 4 December 1679
Lived in: Westport, Oxford, Paris & Derbyshire

Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher best known for Leviathan, his analysis of fear, conflict, political authority, and the social order. He also wrote on language, perception, mathematics, and the methods of knowledge.

A LESSER-KNOWN DETAIL

Hobbes said that fear and he were born twins: family tradition held that news of the approaching Spanish Armada frightened his mother into giving birth early.

Words by Thomas Hobbes

“The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

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“Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.”

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“Curiosity is a lust of the mind.”

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