Author: Thomas Hobbes

Quotes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

- Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

- Thomas Hobbes

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

- Thomas Hobbes

During 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.

During 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

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

- Thomas Hobbes

The 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.

The 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

War 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.

War 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

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

- Thomas Hobbes

Words are the money of fools.

Words are the money of fools.

- Thomas Hobbes

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