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.
- Thomas Hobbes
Last, Them, Which, Subjects
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
- Thomas Hobbes
Restless, Inclination, Perpetual
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
- Thomas Hobbes
Thoughts, Shame, Over, Obscene
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
- Thomas Hobbes
Last, Which, Inhabitants, Remedy
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
Mind, Past, Endures, Gluttony
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
- Thomas Hobbes
Curiosity, Mind, Lust
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
- Thomas Hobbes
Believing, Same, Force, Gravitation
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
- Thomas Hobbes
Other, Roman Empire, Grave, Empire
Words are the money of fools.
- Thomas Hobbes
Money, Words, Fools
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
- Thomas Hobbes
Words, Wise Men, Though, Understood
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
Nature, May, Learned, Hardly
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
- Thomas Hobbes
Science, Fact, Another, Dependence
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
- Thomas Hobbes
War, Fraud, Virtues, Cardinal
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
- Thomas Hobbes
Envy, Living, Mutual, Proceeds
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
Comparison, Some, Arising, Conception
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
- Thomas Hobbes
Speech, Else, Caused, Conception
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
Dislike, Call, Private, Approve
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
- Thomas Hobbes
Other, Allow, Willing, All Things
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
- Thomas Hobbes
Nature, Measure, State, Profit
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
- Thomas Hobbes
Truth, Pleasure, Nor, Profit
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
Nature, Will, Use, Each Man
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
Mind, Desire, Here, Tranquillity
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
War, Against, Every Man, Conditions
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
- Thomas Hobbes
Living, Absurdity, Which, Creature
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
- Thomas Hobbes
Mother, Leisure, Philosophy
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
- Thomas Hobbes
Minds, Horror, Commonly, Beasts
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
- Thomas Hobbes
Law, Nor, His, Error
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
- Thomas Hobbes
I Am, Last, Take, Leap
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.
- Thomas Hobbes
Death, Die, Grow, Horizon
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
- Thomas Hobbes
Away, Assault, Lay, Resisting
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.
- Thomas Hobbes
War, Will, Sufficiently, Tract
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
- Thomas Hobbes
Passion, Which, Maketh, Sudden
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
- Thomas Hobbes
Chains, Still, Though, Prison
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
- Thomas Hobbes
Apply, Which, Equally, Unto
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
- Thomas Hobbes
Law, Legal, Makes, Authority
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
- Thomas Hobbes
Judgment, Same, His, Same Thing
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
- Thomas Hobbes
Seed, Natural, Which, Himself
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
- Thomas Hobbes
War, Everyone, Against, Condition
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