38 Quotations by Thomas Hobbes
- 1. A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, ...
- 2. All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of t ...
- 3. Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
- 4. As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
- 5. Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
- 6. Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight ...
- 7. Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards, or menaces of ...
- 8. Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion
- 9. For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed ...
- 10. Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
- 11. He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an ...
- 12. Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
- 13. I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
- 14. In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
- 15. Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ...
- 16. Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
- 17. No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
- 18. No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
- 19. Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
- 20. Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equal ...
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