Thomas Hobbes Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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37 most famous Thomas Hobbes quotes and sayings (philosopher). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

Thomas Hobbes Quotes
“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 Quotes
“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.”
Thomas Hobbes Quotes
“The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”
Thomas Hobbes Quotes
“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
Thomas Hobbes Quotes
“The 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 Quotes
“I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.”
“That 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 Quotes
“The 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 Quotes
“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 fear, no more than without sense.”
Thomas Hobbes Quotes
“A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.”

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