Thomas Hobbes Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Words are the money of fools.”

“A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.”

“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.”

“Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.”

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

“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”

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

“No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.”

“All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.”

“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.”