Thomas Hobbes Quotes

"Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power."
-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 in Opinions quotes.

"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 in Laughter 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 in Nature 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

"The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
-Thomas Hobbes

"Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues."
-Thomas Hobbes

"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 in Life quotes.

"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
-Thomas Hobbes in Justice quotes.

"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."
-Thomas Hobbes in Philosophy quotes.

"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
-Thomas Hobbes

"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
-Thomas Hobbes in Science quotes.