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
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
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
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Thomas Hobbes
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
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
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Thomas Hobbes
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas Hobbes
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Thomas Hobbes
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Thomas Hobbes
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
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Thomas Hobbes
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
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Thomas Hobbes
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
Words are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes