3 Thomas Hobbes Quotes on Perception

Thomas Hobbes quotes on perception

2. 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.

19. Man gives indifferent 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, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

23. For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance.