If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to… — 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
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is… — 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
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes… — 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
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
For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the… — 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
Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals. — 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
It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that… — 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
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