Author details
All Thomas Hobbes 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
77% of people like this quote
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas Hobbes
60% of people like this quote
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.
Thomas Hobbes
60% of people like this quote
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes
59% of people like this quote
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Thomas Hobbes
58% of people like this quote
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Thomas Hobbes
57% of people like this quote
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes
55% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
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.
Thomas Hobbes
54% of people like this quote
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
53% of people like this quote
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Thomas Hobbes
53% of people like this quote
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
53% of people like this quote
Related authors