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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Thomas Hobbes Quotes

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

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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

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

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, Power, War

Curiosity is the lust of the mind. - Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity, Mind, Lust

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

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

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

Words are the money of fools. - Thomas Hobbes

Words are the money of fools. Thomas Hobbes

Money, Words, Fools

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

Nature, Measure, Profit

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

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, Mind

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

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

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

Passion, Laughter, Glory

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

Man, Conscience, Same

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

Facts, Intellectual, Minds

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, Words

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. Thomas Hobbes

Mother, Philosophy, Leisure

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

Man, Privilege, Living

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

Death, War, Man

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

Fear, Religion, Seed

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

Death, Power, Desire

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

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

Great, I Am, Dark

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

Understanding, Speech, Than

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, Comparison

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