black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.

Thomas Hobbes

Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
THOMAS HOBBES

Curious Desire Live Man
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
THOMAS HOBBES

Man Move Philosophy
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBES

Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBES

Book Man Read
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
THOMAS HOBBES

Fear Himself Natural Religious
Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBES

Knowledge One Liner Power
Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBES

Hell Late One Liner Truth
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
THOMAS HOBBES

Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
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.
THOMAS HOBBES

Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
THOMAS HOBBES

Man Philosophy War
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
THOMAS HOBBES

Deep Philosophy Power Simple
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
THOMAS HOBBES

Command Man Philosophy Power
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
THOMAS HOBBES

Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
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?
THOMAS HOBBES

Deep Heart Philosophy Season
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
THOMAS HOBBES

Human Philosophy Reason
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
THOMAS HOBBES

Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy

Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Thomas Hobbes Quotes