Citations de Thomas Hobbes

En anglais : " And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power."

En anglais : "The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."

En anglais : "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."

Extrait de : "C'est donc sur la définition correcte des dénominations que repose le premier usage de la parole, qui est l'acquisition de la science. Et c'est sur les définitions incorrectes ou dans l'absence de définitions que repose le premier abus, duquel procèdent toutes les thèses fausses ou absurdes, et par lequel les hommes qui reçoivent leur instruction de l'autorité des livres et non de leur propre réflexion tombent aussi bas au-dessous de la condition de l'ignorant que les hommes dotés de la vraie science s'élèvent au-dessus."