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Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

Thomas Hobbes
Truth, Philosophy, Too Late
Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes
Mother, Philosophy, Philosophical
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.260, Hackett Publishing

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes
Mother, Philosophy, Leisure

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

Thomas Hobbes
Mother, Philosophy, Leisure
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.260, Hackett Publishing

Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

Thomas Hobbes
Philosophy, Men, Names
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.

Thomas Hobbes
Philosophy, Book, Law
"Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 26, 1651.

The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

Thomas Hobbes
Bible, Philosophy, Philosophical
Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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