Thomas Hobbes Quotes

No reference is truly direct — every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance

...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

Meaning is not in things but in between them.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

He has denied what has happened. His sworn statements have denied what has happened.

Truth burns up error.

Charlie X”)? Those were the hints, as far as I’m concerned.

What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.