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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Art

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 Quotes

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion

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

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

English Philosopher

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 Quotes

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

Competition English Philosopher

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 Quotes

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.

English Philosopher

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

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

English Philosopher

Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

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

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

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

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only

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

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

Man

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

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

Consequences English Philosopher

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

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

English Philosopher

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

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

Conscience English Philosopher

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

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

English Philosopher Experience

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

English Philosopher Leisure

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

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

English Philosopher Force

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 Quotes

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.

English Philosopher Men

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 Quotes

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.

English Philosopher

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

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

English Philosopher

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

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 Quotes

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.

English Philosopher

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

English Philosopher

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

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

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 Quotes

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.

English Philosopher

I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

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

Death

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 Quotes

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.

English Philosopher Laughter

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

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

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 Quotes

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

Words

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called

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

Mind

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools

Words

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 Quotes

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

English Philosopher

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 Quotes

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.

English Philosopher

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.

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

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

English Philosopher

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

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

English Philosopher Understanding

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

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

English Philosopher

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 Quotes

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.

English Philosopher

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

English Philosopher

Words are the money of fools. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Words are the money of fools.

English Philosopher

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

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

English Philosopher

Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

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 Quotes

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.

English Philosopher

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

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

English Philosopher

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

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

English Philosopher

They that approve a private opinion, call it an opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

They that approve a private opinion, call it an opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

English Philosopher

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 Quotes

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.

English Philosopher

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