Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
THOMAS HOBBESThe Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
-
-
Some men’s desires are without limits.
THOMAS HOBBES -
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
THOMAS HOBBES -
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
THOMAS HOBBES -
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
THOMAS HOBBES -
Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBES -
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBES -
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
THOMAS HOBBES -
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
THOMAS HOBBES -
Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBES -
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
THOMAS HOBBES -
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES -
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
THOMAS HOBBES -
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBES -
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
THOMAS HOBBES -
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
THOMAS HOBBES