Thomas Hobbes Quotes
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
Citations
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Andrew Crooke, 1651, p. 108.
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Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, and ethics, as well as philosophy in general.