Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
THOMAS HOBBESLife itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
THOMAS HOBBESForce and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
THOMAS HOBBESWhat 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 HOBBESCuriosity is the lust of the mind.
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 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 HOBBESIt is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBESFor such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
THOMAS HOBBESWhere 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 HOBBESFact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
THOMAS HOBBESThat Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESI put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
THOMAS HOBBESThe first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
THOMAS HOBBESAll acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
THOMAS HOBBESTrue’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
THOMAS HOBBESNow I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBES