Thomas Hobbes Quotes

“For there 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 Feare, no more than without Sense.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:life fear desire

“For it can never be that Warre shall preserve life, and Peace destroy it.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:life war peace

“And when all the world is overchargd with Inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is Warre; which provideth for every man, by Victory, or Death.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:death war

“For such Truth, as opposeth no man profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:truth pleasure

“For True and False are attributes of Speech, not of things. And where Speech in not, there is neither Truth nor Falshood.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:truth speech

“Time, and Industry, produce every day new knowledge.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:time knowledge

“For Prudence, is but Experience; which equall time, equally bestowes on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:time experience

“The Register of Knowledge Of Fact is called History.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:knowledge history

“When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:knowledge

“And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:fear religion

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