Showing posts with label Thomas Hobbes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Hobbes. Show all posts

Monday, April 24, 2017

Daily Dose


From Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, by Amir Alexander

LEVIATHAN

"The Leviathan is the be-all and end-all, and exists for itself alone."

From Chapter 6

Friday, August 5, 2016

A Caricature


Absolutist Clerihew


THOMAS HOBBES

Thomas Hobbes
Believed the Nobs
Ruled by right of Almighty God.
(Simple sod.)

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Daily Dose

From Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes

BUT

"But some things there be, that can be neither divided, nor enjoyed in common."

From Of Man, Chapter 15, #26

Friday, June 4, 2010

Daily Dose

From On Murder: Considered as One of the Fine Arts, by Thomas De Quincey

HOBBES

"Hobbes, but why, or on what principle, I never could understand, was not murdered."