It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBESIt is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBESTrue’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
THOMAS HOBBESIt’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
THOMAS HOBBESNo 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 HOBBESAs a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBESLook not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
THOMAS HOBBESThat Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESThe source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
THOMAS HOBBESLife itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
THOMAS HOBBESBy 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 HOBBESKnowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBESWar consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
THOMAS HOBBESFear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
THOMAS HOBBESWhen all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
THOMAS HOBBESConcerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
THOMAS HOBBES