A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
A man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
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 Quote
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
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 Quote
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
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 Quote
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
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 Quote
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
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 Quote
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
- Thomas Hobbes Quote
