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

Legal, Law, Authority

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

Condition, Everyone, Against

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. Thomas Hobbes

Mother, Philosophy, Leisure

Curiosity is the lust of the mind. - Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes

Mind, Curiosity, 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

Nature, Will, Use

Words are the money of fools. - Thomas Hobbes

Words are the money of fools. Thomas Hobbes

Money, Words, Fools

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

Assault, Away, Lay

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

Against, Every Man, War

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

May, Nature, Learned

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

Desire, Here, Mind

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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

Which, Last, Subjects

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

Allow, Other, Willing

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

Shame, Over, Thoughts

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

Fraud, Virtues, War

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

Roman Empire, Other, Grave

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

Call, Private, Approve

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

Fact, Science, Another

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. Thomas Hobbes

Proceeds, Mutual, Envy

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

Living, Which, Absurdity

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

Minds, Horror, Commonly

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

Speech, Else, Caused

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

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. Thomas Hobbes

Tract, Will, Sufficiently

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

Mind, Endures, Past

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

His, Same, Judgment

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

Measure, Nature, State

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