It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power… — 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
From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth; and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war;… — 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
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