Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and… — 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
If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit. — 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
By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth; and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend… — 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
From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions:… — 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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