Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Atheism

• Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Atheism, Belief

• Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Curiosity, Atheism

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.122, Xist Publishing

• Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mind, Atheism, Superstitions

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

• Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Silence, Atheism, Argument

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

• Las religiones son como píldoras, que deben tragarse enteras sin masticar.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ateo, Ateísmo, Píldoras

• In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Powerful, People, Democracy

• Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Passion, Atheism, Different

  Thomas Hobbes (1840). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Dialogue between a philosopher and a student of the common laws in England. Behemoth: The history of the causes of the civil wars of England. The whole art of rhetoric. The art of rhetoric, plainly set forth. The art of sophistry”, p.174

• The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Hombres, Ateísmo, Propósito

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.473, Cambridge University Press

• No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Atheism, Facts, Ends

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.122

• I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Atheism, World, Holes

  Thomas Hobbes (1812). “The treatise on human nature and that on liberty and necessity. With a suppl. to which is prefixed an account of his life and writings by the editor [P. Mallet].”, p.66

• Pero los que sostienen que Dios es [una sustancia incorpórea] hacen absolutamente que Dios no sea nada en absoluto. ¿Pero cómo? ¿Eran ateos? No. Porque aunque por ignorancia de las consecuencias decían lo que era equivalente al ateísmo, en sus corazones pensaban que Dios era una sustancia, de modo que este ateísmo por consecuencia es algo muy fácil en lo que pueden caer, incluso los hombres más piadosos de la Iglesia.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Atheist, Heart, Ignorance

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