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 More Quotes by Thomas Hobbes More Quotes From Thomas Hobbes Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies. Thomas Hobbes atheism passion different And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will . Thomas Hobbes deliberation beast But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules. Thomas Hobbes reason men fall Reason is the Soul of the Law. Thomas Hobbes political soul law When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together. Thomas Hobbes together men two It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles. Thomas Hobbes principles men fall For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life? Thomas Hobbes spring watches moving So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime. Thomas Hobbes crime Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. Thomas Hobbes political may men To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers. Thomas Hobbes monarchs orators political Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge? Thomas Hobbes judging kings christian Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man. Thomas Hobbes doctors wise men Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow. Thomas Hobbes men past In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people. Thomas Hobbes democracy powerful people 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 contractor appetite giving 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 envy grief self From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether those little sums were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the error visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to clear themselves; but spend time in fluttering over their books, as birds that entering by the chimney, and finding themselves enclosed in a chamber, flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. Thomas Hobbes errors glasses book No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man. Thomas Hobbes bounds men What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other? Thomas Hobbes fruit liberty littles Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called. Thomas Hobbes propositions
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