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In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Religion; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
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 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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all. The bonds of words are too weak to bridle man's ambition, avarice, anger, and other passions, without the fear of some coercive power (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
And though they shine, some more, some less, when they are out of his sight, yet in his presence they shine no more than the stars in the presence of the sun (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
No man can be judge to his own cause (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The object of man’s desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)