The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
