Nature of man Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

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There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for…

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So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a…

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Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

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“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first,…

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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in…

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If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without…

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“For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or…

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For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or…

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Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;…

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Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

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He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he…

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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their…

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Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it…

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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to…

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“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”

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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

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Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered…

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