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Thomas Hobbes est un philosophe anglais. Son œuvre majeure, le Léviathan, eut une influence considérable sur la philosophie politique moderne, par sa conceptualisation de l'état de nature et du contrat social, conceptualisation qui fonde les bases de la souveraineté. Quoique souvent accusé de conservatisme excessif , ayant inspiré des auteurs comme Maistre et Schmitt, le Léviathan eut aussi une influence considérable sur l'émergence du libéralisme et de la pensée économique libérale du XXe siècle, et sur l'étude des relations internationales et de son courant rationaliste dominant : le réalisme. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. avril 1588 – 4. décembre 1679
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Thomas Hobbes Citations

“Il est manifeste que pendant ce temps où les humains vivent sans qu'une puissance commune ne leur impose à tous un respect mêlé d'effroi, leur condition est ce qu'on appelle la guerre; et celle-ci est telle qu'elle est une guerre de chacun contre chacun.”

Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

Citations sourcées, Léviathan, 1651

“De cette institution de la République sont dérivés tous les droits et libertés de celui ou de ceux à qui le pouvoir souverain a été conféré par le consentement du peuple assemblé.”

Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

Citations sourcées, Léviathan, 1651

Thomas Hobbes: Citations en anglais

“As also the great number of Corporations; which are as it were many lesser Common-wealths in the bowels of a greater, like wormes in the entrayles of a natural man.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 29, p. 174
Leviathan (1651)

“Give an inch, he'll take an ell.”

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Thomas Hobbes

Liberty and Necessity (no. 111)

“But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because ignorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 25, p. 132
Leviathan (1651)

“A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 14, p. 69
Leviathan (1651)

“For Warre, consisteth not in Battell onely, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to contend by Battell is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of Time, is to be considered in the nature of Warre; as it is in the nature of Weather.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 13, p. 62
Leviathan (1651)

“Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time:”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 21
Leviathan (1651)

“Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 13, p. 62
Leviathan (1651)

“The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, prophane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame, or blame…”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 8, p. 34
Leviathan (1651)

“And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Third Part, Chapter 36, p. 226 (See also: Glossolalia)
Leviathan (1651)

“But Aversion wee have for things, not only which we know have hurt us; but also that we do not know whether they will hurt us, or not.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 24
Leviathan (1651)

“If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 2, p. 8
Leviathan (1651)

“I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty, and on the other side for too much Authority, 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Epistle Dedicatory, Paris, April 15-25, 1651
Leviathan (1651)

“For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 29 (See also: Rene Girard)
Leviathan (1651)

“For he that hath strength enough to protect all, wants not sufficiency to oppresse all.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre De Cive

De Cive "Of the right of him, whether Counsell, or one Man onely, who hath the supreme power in the City" (1642) Ch. 6

“No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 21, p. 112
Leviathan (1651)

“By MANNERS, I mean not here Decency of behaviour; as how one man should salute another, or how a man should wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of the Small Morals; But those qualities of mankind that concern their living together in Peace and Unity. To which end we are to consider that the Felicity of this life consisteth not in the repose of a mind satisfied. For there is no such Finis ultimus (utmost aim) nor Summum Bonum (greatest good) as is spoken of in the books of the old Moral Philosophers. Nor can a man any more live whose desires are at an end than he whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 11, p. 47
Leviathan (1651)

“Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 26
Leviathan (1651)

“In the state of nature, Profit is the measure of Right.”
...in statu naturae Mensuram juris esse Utilitatem.

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Thomas Hobbes livre De Cive

De Cive (1642)

“For Prudence, is but Experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 13, p. 60
Leviathan (1651)

“For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth; and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member of the Body of Man.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 24, p. 130 (See also: Velocity of money)
Leviathan (1651)

“From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 19, p. 97
Leviathan (1651)

“Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Third Part, Chapter 42, p. 315
Leviathan (1651)

“To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.”

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Thomas Hobbes

On the proposition that the volume generated by revolving the region under 1/x from 1 to infinity has finite volume. Quoted in Mathematical Maxims and Minims by N. Rose (1988)

“But this priviledge, is allayed by another; and that is, by the priviledge of Absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 20
Leviathan (1651)

“The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 25
Leviathan (1651)

“Of all Discourse, governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End, either by attaining, or by giving over.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 7, p. 30
Leviathan (1651)

“Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 30, p. 176
Leviathan (1651)

“A naturall foole that could never learn by heart the order of numerall words, as one, two, and three, may observe every stroak of the Clock, and nod to it, or say one, one, one; but can never know what houre it strikes.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 4, p. 14
Leviathan (1651)

“From the same it proceedeth, that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 11, p. 50
Leviathan (1651)

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