Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
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.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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.
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.
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.
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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.
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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.
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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.
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Words are the money of fools.
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
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Thomas Hobbes
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05 April, 1588
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04 December, 1679
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