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Außer Empfindung, Gedanken und Gedankenfolgen kennt der menschliche Geist keine Bewegung.
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Staatstheoretiker, Philosoph, schuf 1651 mit "Leviathan" sein Hauptwerk (England, 1588 - 1679).
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Thomas Hobbes wäre heute 436 Jahre, 0 Monate, 23 Tage oder 159.269 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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Übrigens werden in solchen Zusammenkünften meist die Abwesenden verletzt! Deren Leben, Worte und Handlungen werden untersucht, beurteilt, verdammt oder zu beißenden Scherzen benutzt. Ja selbst die Genossen werden nicht geschont; sobald sie zur Tür hinaus sind, müssen sie gleiches erleiden. Deshalb war es gar kein törichter Einfall, aus solchen Klatschgesellschaften immer als der letzte fortzugehen.
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Wir finden drei Gründe für Streit in der menschlichen Natur: erstens Konkurrenz, zweitens Mangel an Selbstvertrauen, drittens Ruhmsucht.
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All knowledge is remembrance.
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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same without such opinion, despair.
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Covenants without swords are but words.
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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
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For as the nature of foul weather, lieth not in a shower or two of rain; but in an inclination thereto of many days together: so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.
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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Freedom is political power divided into small fragments.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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In Geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind) men begin at settling the significations of their words; which . . . they call Definitions.
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Justice consists in taking from no man what is his.
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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
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Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men, in all things they equally apply themselves unto.