85 result(s) for Thomas Hobbes Quotes.
"To speak of future things, is but to set forth a man's own conjectures."
"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."
"A seed once sown does not die."
"Covenants without the sword are but words."
"For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."
"The esteem of others is the highest compliment one can receive."
"The condition of human nature is constant conflict and not nobility."
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"Nature hath made men so equal, in the faculties of the body and mind."
"Be consistent in your actions; consistency will eventually lead to success."
"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark."
"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force."
"Force and fraud are in war, the two cardinal virtues."
"The desires of man increase with his possessions."
"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of War, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withal."
"A covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void."
"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."
"Learning becomes pleasurable when differences and puzzles are reconciled."
"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."
"And from their premises it follows, that nothing universally agreed upon is to be defined."
"Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions."
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"Things for the most part are just what they seem to be."
"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools."
"The state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all."
"The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."
"To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust."
"Force and fraud are in war the cardinal virtues."
"Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome."
"If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."
"INJUSTICE is the not performance of a covenant."
"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."
"Thought is the soul of the act."
"All generous minds have a horror for what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
"The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species."
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"Nature hath made men so equal, in the faculties of body and mind."
"A person cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force."
"There are two ways by which a man can be free: one is the way of Nature, the other is the way of the City."
"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."
"Though it may seem harsh, hidden truths will always be plain."
"The source of every crime is some defect of the understanding; or some error of the will."
"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man."
"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
"For 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."
"Every man looks upon his neighbor as an enemy and treats him accordingly."
"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."
"The world without artificial wants would be a state of war."
"Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure, is to all men welcome."
"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility 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."
"Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact."
"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
"Words are the money of fools."
"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing."
"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."
"To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher."
"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."
"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion."
"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
"Liberty is the absence of external impediments."
"Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off."
"The thoughts of man are widened with the revolution of the seasons."
"A good life is a main argument."
"Most men are guided by circumstances; others by example."
"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of War, where every man is Enemy to every man."
"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech."
"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."
"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."
"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."
"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools."
"Hell is truth seen too late."
"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."
"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."
"A man can curb his appetites by reason when it is good for him to do so."
"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."
"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
"The state of men without civil society (is) nothing else but a mere war of all against all."
"The right of nature... is the liberty to use power for the preservation of one's own nature."
"And though my heart be stronger than my head, yet he never feared death, or thought himself weak from reflect... On Atheism and Superstition."
"The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions."
"The condition of man is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
"I focus not on the pleasure of the senses, and it is the fall of the mind."
"A competent judge will not believe any conclusion unless it follows from his own principles."
"A man who is young loves beauty, but the man who is older loves laws."
"Good and evil are the supreme rule of the conduct of the wise man."
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