02c. 1633 ADIf I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
05c. 1633 ADDuring the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
06c. 1633 ADThe condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
07c. 1633 ADWhen 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 Hobbes / quote ↗
08c. 1633 ADWar consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
09c. 1633 ADThe right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
11c. 1633 ADSuch is the nature of men, 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.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
12c. 1633 ADScience is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
13c. 1633 ADThe disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
14c. 1633 ADI put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
15c. 1633 ADFear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
16c. 1633 ADThe obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
17c. 1633 ADPrudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
18c. 1633 ADThere is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
19c. 1633 ADSuch truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
22c. 1633 ADThat a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
23c. 1633 ADThe flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.Thomas Hobbes / quote ↗
