Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

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

#Witty

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

#Laughter

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

#Laughter

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

#Money

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

#Money

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

#Death

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy;...

#Opinions

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

#Ignorance, #Opinions

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the...

#Mind

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power,...

#Liberty, #Nature

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for...

#Thomas Hobbes

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

#Thomas Hobbes