The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESThe understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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 HOBBESThe light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
THOMAS HOBBESGod put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
THOMAS HOBBESNow I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESFor it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
THOMAS HOBBESThe secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
THOMAS HOBBESFor prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
THOMAS HOBBESLife is nasty, brutish, and short.
THOMAS HOBBESThe Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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 HOBBESAs a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBESThat Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESIf I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
THOMAS HOBBESThe first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
THOMAS HOBBES