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Biography - Thomas Hobbes:

English philosopher.
Born: 1588 - Died: 1679
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
L'oisiveté est la mère de la philosophie.

German
Die Muße ist die Mutter der Philosophie.




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See also...



Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.




Quotes for: philosophy


Quotes

Quotes about philosophy:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.






Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.











Quotes

Thomas Hobbes also said...


No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.





It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.





The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.





True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.





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.





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












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