Thomas Hobbes Quotes

English - Philosopher April 5, 1588 - December 4, 1679

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Wisdom Legal Law Authority 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.

Life Nature Man Power

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

Man War Everyone Against

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.

Life Fear Live Mind

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.

Power Long Last Protect

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.

Time Man War Men

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

Nature Measure Profit Right

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

Facts Horror Intellectual Minds

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Mind Curiosity Lust

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.

Nature Wise Men Believe

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Peace Man Men Think

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

Man Wise Men Words

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

Force Same Believing Gravitation

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

Man Conscience May Same

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

Death Power Desire Only

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

Life Man Down Force

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

Thoughts Light Man Blame

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

Prison Enemy Chains Overcome

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

Science Knowledge Consequences Fact

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

Opinion Dislike More Than

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

I Am Great Dark Last

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Man Law Own Him

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Passion Laughter Glory Which

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

Sitting Ghost Than Empire

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Day Death Die Grow

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Man Welcome Truth Men

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