Top 26 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

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

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

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.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.