“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
― Thomas Hobbes
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"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be wittier, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Ambition, and covetousness are passions that are perpetually incumbent and pressing."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.’’
― Thomas Hobbes
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"When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death."
― Thomas Hobbes
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"Where there is no common power, there is no law."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."
― Thomas Hobbes |
“For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.”
― Thomas Hobbes
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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 doors?’’
― Thomas Hobbes |
"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy."
― Thomas Hobbes
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“Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.”
― Thomas Hobbes
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"Give an inch, he'll take an ell."
― Thomas Hobbes
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"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"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 nature, that is to say, of his own life."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here, because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.’’
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all."
― Thomas Hobbes
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