Hobbes

Famous quotes containing the word hobbes:

    For 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.
    —Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)

    They that approve a private opinion, call it an opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
    —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

    The Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
    —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)