Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. — 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… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of… — 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
Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it.… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles,… — 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
