Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher, psychologist, and moralist, born at Malmesbury. He was educated at Oxford. He remained connected all his days with the Cavendish family, with members of which he travelled on the Continent, and was on friendly terms with Charles II, Bacon, Descartes, &c. He translated Thucydides, wrote a number of works, "De Cive" among others, and the "Leviathan," all more or less leading up to the doctrine that the absolute sovereign power in all matters of right and wrong is vested in the State as the achieved fact of the emancipation of the race from savagery.Wisdom & Quotes
- Justice consists in taking from no man what is his.
- The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
- …the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
- Science is the knowledge of consequences and the dependence of one fact upon another.
Duc de Sully