War 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 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 HOBBESFact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
THOMAS HOBBESWords are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBESKnowledge is power.
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 HOBBESAll acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
THOMAS HOBBESCuriosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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 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 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 HOBBESIf men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
THOMAS HOBBESA man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
THOMAS HOBBESIt is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
THOMAS HOBBESFor it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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 HOBBES