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.

Quote by Thomas Hobbes

Topics: Liberty Quotes, Nature Quotes

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and...

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and...

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past...

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past...

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise...

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise...

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency...

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency...

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency...

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency...

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned...

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned...

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

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

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be...

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be...

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome;...

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome;...

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the...

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the...

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things...

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things...

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency...

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency...

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or...

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or...

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract...

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract...

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of...

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of...

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.