Death Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

11 Death quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes, the mind behind the social contract, brings a stark, analytical lens to mortality. In these eleven brief observations you’ll find his characteristic blend of realism and philosophical rigor.

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“Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark”

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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by…

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Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them…

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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in…

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The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death…

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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life…

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If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to…

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It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but…

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Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and…

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Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him…

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“In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth;…

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Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;…

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Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

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He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it…

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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their…

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Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it…

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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to…

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“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”

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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

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Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered…

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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he…

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The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and…

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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…

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