Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBESKnowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBESFor it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
THOMAS HOBBESCuriosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBESThe first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
THOMAS HOBBESTrue’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
THOMAS HOBBESFact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
THOMAS HOBBESMen are moved by appetites and aversions.
THOMAS HOBBESWhatsoever 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 HOBBESwhatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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 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 HOBBESI often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
THOMAS HOBBESLook not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
THOMAS HOBBESDesire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
THOMAS HOBBESPower simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
THOMAS HOBBESAnd if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
THOMAS HOBBES