For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue… — 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
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. — 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
And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death… — 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
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
“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but… — 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
We are not to renounce our senses and experience, nor (that which is the undoubted Word of God) our natural Reason. For… — 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
