Thomas Hobbes Quotes

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes

Men, Wise, Words

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes

Minds, Facts, Horror

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes

Mind, Lust, Curiosity

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 will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes

Nature, Men, Wise

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Thomas Hobbes

War, Everyone, Against

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes

Wisdom, Law, Makes

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

Life, Nature, Power

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, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes

Life, Fear, Live

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Thomas Hobbes

Same, Believing, Force

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes

Mother, Philosophy, Leisure

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

Time, Men, Power

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes

Life, Him, Down

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes

May, Same, Conscience

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Thomas Hobbes

Enemy, Put, Though

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 with our own formerly.
Thomas Hobbes

Laughter, Nothing, Others

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Thomas Hobbes

Ghost, Sitting, Grave

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes

Religion, Fear, Everyone

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes

Knowledge, Science, Another

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
Thomas Hobbes

Opinion, Call, Private

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes

War, Two, Force

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes

Great, Dark, Last

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Thomas Hobbes

Power, Death, After

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Thomas Hobbes

Nature, State, Measure

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

Power, Long, Able

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Thomas Hobbes

Blame, Thoughts, Light

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 5, 1588

Died: December 4, 1679

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