Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe,...

#Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

#Thomas Hobbes

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

#Thomas Hobbes

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so...

#Thomas Hobbes

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force,...

#Thomas Hobbes

Words are the money of fools. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon...

#Thomas Hobbes

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

#Thomas Hobbes

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

#Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because...

#Thomas Hobbes

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave,...

#Thomas Hobbes

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

#Thomas Hobbes

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from...

#Thomas Hobbes