Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
THOMAS HOBBESFear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
THOMAS HOBBESHell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBESThe first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
THOMAS HOBBESGive an inch, he’ll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBESNor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
THOMAS HOBBESFor to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
THOMAS HOBBESI put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
THOMAS HOBBESA great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESliberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
THOMAS HOBBESAs a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBESA man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
THOMAS HOBBESCuriosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBESwhatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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 HOBBESThe understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESLook not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
THOMAS HOBBES