Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot… — 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
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
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right… — 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
But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without… — 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
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
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 Image
