"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech."
― Thomas Hobbes
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"Words are the money of fools."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"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 war, as if of every man, against every man."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.’’
― Thomas Hobbes
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"No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it."
― Thomas Hobbes
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“The first branch of which Rule, containeth the first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.”
― Thomas Hobbes
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"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
― Thomas Hobbes |
“The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.”
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Fear and I both were twins."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"The condition of Man is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
― Thomas Hobbes
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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Hell is truth seen too late."
― Thomas Hobbes
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"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
― Thomas Hobbes
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"It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit."
― Thomas Hobbes
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“The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure forever, the way of his future desires.”
― Thomas Hobbes |
"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"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 to protect them."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice."
― Thomas Hobbes
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