All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here. — 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
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present.… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects;… — 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 light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace…… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued… — 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
