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
“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
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
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
A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — 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
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
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 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
Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in… — 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
If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without… — 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
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he… — 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
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
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
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. — 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
If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to… — 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
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
