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
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the… — 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
The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he… — 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
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
![“But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by…” quote by Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/280/thomas-hobbes-1127_atheism_but-they-that-hold-god-to-be-an-incorpor_2409721.jpg)
