Thomas Hobbes Quotes & Sayings
37 most famous Thomas Hobbes quotes and sayings (philosopher). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.”
“The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”
“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.”
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