Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
THOMAS HOBBESLife itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Knowledge is power.
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For 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.
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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.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Whatsoever 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.
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Every 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.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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?
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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