Quotes Thomas Hobbes

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assau...

A man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and ...

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and a...

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by al...

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called...

Curiosity is the lust of the mind....

During the time men live without a common power to keep them...

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which e...

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

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conque...

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

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetua...

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

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

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some ...

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy....

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persi...

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

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestow...

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of ...

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowled...

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

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces call...

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth ...

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