Thomas Hobbes Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.”

“Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.”

“The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.”

“Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.”

“Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.”

“Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”

“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.”