Thomas Hobbes famous quotes

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Too Late #Hell #Ecology

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

#Life Lesson #Philosophical #Lust

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

#Law #Justice #Authority

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Freedom #Law #Unnecessary

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Mother #Philosophy #Philosophical

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Witty #Book #Men

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Fear #Religion #Invisible

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

#Wise #Wisdom #Witty

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

#Science #Reality #Facts

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

#Life #Nature #Men

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

#Wise #Men #Fool

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Law #Firsts #Fundamentals

There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Liberty #Foolish

The world is governed by opinion.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#World #Opinion

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

#War #Men #Survival

Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Men #Atheism #Belief

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

#Envy #Competition #Ancient

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

#Philosophical #Dark #Voyages

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

#Laughter #Philosophical #Passion

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

#Life #Philosophical #Men

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

#Understanding #Speech

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Inspirational #Despair #Opinion

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Absurd #Conclusion

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

#War #Two #Hype

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

#Fear #Mind #Desire

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

#Power #Long #Able

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

#Life #Philosophical #Men

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

#Wise #Wisdom #Writing

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Ignorance #Passion #Errors

It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.
-- Thomas Hobbes

#Fall #Men #Forget