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To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.
— Thomas Hobbes
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
— Thomas Hobbes
From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.
— Thomas Hobbes
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
— Thomas Hobbes
Hell is truth seen too late.
— Thomas Hobbes
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth
— Thomas Hobbes
The law is the public conscience.
— Thomas Hobbes
Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
— Thomas Hobbes
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
— Thomas Hobbes
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
— Thomas Hobbes
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
When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.
— Thomas Hobbes
Words are the money of fools.
— Thomas Hobbes
And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause
— Thomas Hobbes
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
— Thomas Hobbes
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
— Thomas Hobbes
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
— Thomas Hobbes
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
— Thomas Hobbes
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
— Thomas Hobbes
The reputation of power IS power.
— Thomas Hobbes
Covenants without swords are but words.
— Thomas Hobbes
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
— Thomas Hobbes
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
— Thomas Hobbes
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
— Thomas Hobbes
There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
— Thomas Hobbes
There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
— Thomas Hobbes
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
— Thomas Hobbes
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
— Thomas Hobbes
Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
— Thomas Hobbes
Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.
— Thomas Hobbes
It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
— Thomas Hobbes
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
— Thomas Hobbes
As Thomas Hobbes said, If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
— Thomas Hobbes
If I may paraphrase Hobbes's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
No man can be judge to his own cause.
— Thomas Hobbes
Scientia potentia est.Knowledge is power. — Thomas Hobbes
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
— Thomas Hobbes
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad ... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
— Thomas Hobbes
A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous
— Thomas Hobbes
So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.
— Thomas Hobbes
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
— Thomas Hobbes
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy
— Thomas Hobbes
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
— Thomas Hobbes
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
— Thomas Hobbes
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
— Thomas Hobbes
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
— Thomas Hobbes
Corporations are "worms in the body politic"
— Thomas Hobbes
This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them.
— Thomas Hobbes
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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
For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
— 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
The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
— Thomas Hobbes
Reason is the Soul of the Law.
— Thomas Hobbes
Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.
— Thomas Hobbes
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
— Thomas Hobbes
For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.
— Thomas Hobbes
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
— Thomas Hobbes
The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
— Thomas Hobbes
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
— Thomas Hobbes
It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
— Thomas Hobbes
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
— Thomas Hobbes
Nature itself cannot err
— Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.
— David Hume
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
— Thomas Hobbes
Where there is no common power, there is no law
— Thomas Hobbes
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
— Thomas Hobbes
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
— Thomas Hobbes
I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
— Thomas Hobbes
In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
— Thomas Hobbes
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
— Thomas Hobbes
A great leap in the dark
— Thomas Hobbes
