Thomas Hobbes Quotes

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

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

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

Wisdom, Law, Legal, Authority, Makes

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

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

War, Man, Everyone, Against, Condition

Curiosity is the lust of the mind. - Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity, Mind, Lust

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, Man, Say, Liberty

Words are the money of fools. - Thomas Hobbes

Words are the money of fools. Thomas Hobbes

Money, Words, Fools

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, War, Power, Live, Man, Men

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. Thomas Hobbes

Peace, Man, Men, Think, Down, Liberty

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, Protect, Last, Understood

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. Thomas Hobbes

Man, Living, Privilege, Absurdity, Only

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

Wise, Man, Men, Words, Wise Man, Only

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

Facts, Horror, Intellectual, Minds

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. Thomas Hobbes

Understanding, Speech, Nothing, Than

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, Mind, Desire, Never

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

Life, Man, Down, Right, Away, Him

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, Desire, Only, Mankind, Put

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

Believing, Same, Force, Gravitation

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 lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes

Future, Alone, Past, Mind, Present, 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. Thomas Hobbes

Nature, Wise, Men, Believe, Will, Others

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

Nature, Measure, Profit, Right, State

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

Prison, Enemy, Overcome, Chains, Still

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. Thomas Hobbes

Death, Day, Grow, Die, Horizon, Spirit

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, Glory, Nothing, Others, Own

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. Thomas Hobbes

Mother, Philosophy, Leisure

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

Knowledge, Science, Consequences, Fact

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

Passion, Laughter, Glory, Which, Sudden

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. Thomas Hobbes

Time, Experience, Men, Equal, Things

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