Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes
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More quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
- I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
- The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
- Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
- There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.