Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."
— Thomas Hobbes
"Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."
— Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes (/hɒbz/ HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theor...