Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a… — 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
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
“Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the… — 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
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in… — 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
... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire. — 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
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued… — 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
