Best Thomas Hobbes Quotes
- For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we… Decaying
- During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a… All
- To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice… Cardinal
- Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are… Appetite
- Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. Bowels
- Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. Cowardice
- To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers. Flatterer
- Reason is the Soul of the Law. Law
- Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing. Ambition
- A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. Able
- Hell is Truth Seen Too Late. Ecology
- Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of… Any
- For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it. Destroy
- It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end. End
- If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors? Always Carry
- As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body Animal
- It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit. Cloves
- By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words,… Altogether
- And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations… Begin
- For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others… Body
- Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself. Inspirational
- Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation… Any
- If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. Inspirational
- If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies. Any
- Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired. Abroad
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