Leviathan Quotes

“When a man Reasoneth, hee does nothing els but conceive a summe totall, from Addition of parcels; or conceive a Remainder, from Substraction of one summe from another”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:reason

“Naturally Every Man Has Right To Everything And because the condition of Man . . . is a condition of Warre of every one against every one; in which case every one is governed by his own Reason”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:reason war

“things Past have a being in the Memory onely, but things To Come have no being at all; the Future being but a fiction of the mind, applying the sequels of actions Past, to the actions that are Present”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:future memory past

“Anxiety for the future time, disposeth men to enquire into the causes of things: because the knowledge of them, maketh men the better able to order the present to their best advantage.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:future

“But this priviledge, is allayed by another; and that is, by the priviledge of Absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man onely.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:man

“Force, and Fraud, are in warre the two Cardinall vertues.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:war

“And Credulity, because men love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:ignorance lie

“to accuse, requires less eloquence (such is man's nature) than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution more resembles justice.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:justice

“The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:justice value

“if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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