Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

British philosopher

Lived from: 1588 - 1679

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 5 april 1588 Died: 4 december 1679

  • 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 action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
  • 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.
  • For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
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  • It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
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  • A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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  • Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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  • 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.
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  • Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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  • Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
    Leviathan (1651) XIII
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  • He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
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  • I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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  • In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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  • It is true that they that have sovereign power may commit iniquity, but not injustice or injury in the proper signification.
    Leviathan (1651) XVIII
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  • Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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  • 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.
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  • No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
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  • Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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  • Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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  • 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.
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  • Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
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  • The condition of man is a condition of war of every one against everyone.
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  • The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
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  • 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Thomas Hobbes?

The two most famous quotes from Thomas Hobbes are:

  • "It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
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  • "A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

When did Thomas Hobbes live?

Thomas Hobbes was born in 1588 and died in the year 1679.