Best Thomas Hobbes Quotations
- Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they… Acknowledge
- The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. All
- The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own… Each
- Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. Leisure
- A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. Assault
- The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. Crowned
- I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. All
- There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without… Desire
- They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. Approve
- Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or… Arising
- Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. Consequence
- Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Anti War
- The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a… Alone
- The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able… Able
- The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. Absurdity
- The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. Ancient
- War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is… Act
- Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men… Account
- Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. Counters
- For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice. Absolution
- ... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire. Capacity
- If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are. Book
- Life is nasty, brutish, and short Brutish
- A great leap in the dark Dark
- The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it. Firsts
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