black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.

Thomas Hobbes

Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBES

Book Late Man Read Wisdom
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
THOMAS HOBBES

Desire Philosophy
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

Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
THOMAS HOBBES

Man Philosophy War
Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBES

Hell Late One Liner Truth
Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
THOMAS HOBBES

Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
THOMAS HOBBES

Angel Body Philosophy Thing
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
THOMAS HOBBES

Conscience Man Religious Sin
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
THOMAS HOBBES

Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBES

Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
THOMAS HOBBES

Man Power Price Value Worth
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
THOMAS HOBBES

Deep Heart Philosophy Season
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
THOMAS HOBBES

End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
Some men’s desires are without limits.
THOMAS HOBBES

Desire Limit Man One Liner
The 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 HOBBES

Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES

Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Thomas Hobbes Quotes