Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Ignorance

• The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Passion, Errors

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

• Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorancia, Hombres, Ley

  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.209

• Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Men, Talking

• The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Night

  1651 Leviathan, pt.4, ch.44.

• So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.145

• Y en estas cuatro cosas, la opinión de los fantasmas, la ignorancia de las causas segundas, la devoción hacia lo que los hombres temen, y la toma de cosas casuales para pronósticos, consiste la semilla natural de la religión; que a causa de las diferentes fantasías, juicios y pasiones de varios hombres, ha crecido en ceremonias tan diferentes, que las que son usadas por un hombre, son en su mayor parte ridículas para otro.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorancia, Pasión, Hombres

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). "Leviatán", p.90, Simon and Schuster

• 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 igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorancia, Hombres, Ley

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 25, 1651.

• When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Men, Errors

  Thomas Hobbes, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1999). “The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

• 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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