| "Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." Thomas Hobbes |
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| As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body. Thomas Hobbes Quotations |
| Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. Thomas Hobbes |
| Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. Thomas Hobbes Remarks |
| Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. Leviathan Thomas Hobbes |
| Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Thomas Hobbes Quotes |
| He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. Thomas Hobbes Adages |
| 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 |
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| In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. Thomas Hobbes |
| It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law Thomas Hobbes |
| 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. Thomas Hobbes Adages |
| Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. Thomas Hobbes Sayings |
| Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. Thomas Hobbes Remarks |
| No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short Thomas Hobbes Sayings |
| No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. Thomas Hobbes |
| Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. Thomas Hobbes Quotations |
| Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion Thomas Hobbes |
| Pleasure therefore, (or Delight,) is the appearance or sense of Good; and Molestation or Displeasure, the appearance or sense of Evil. Thomas Hobbes Sayings |
| Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. Thomas Hobbes Remarks |
| 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. Thomas Hobbes Adages |
| Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome. Thomas Hobbes |
| Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. Thomas Hobbes Remarks |
| The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. 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. Thomas Hobbes Quotations |
| The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. Thomas Hobbes |
| The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. Thomas Hobbes Sayings |
| 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 Popular Quotes |
| The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame Thomas Hobbes Popular Quotes |
| There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility 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 |
| They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion Thomas Hobbes |
| Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools. Thomas Hobbes Quotations |
