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
Select Thomas Hobbes Quotations
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
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
Words are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Thomas Hobbes
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
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes
All Thomas Hobbes Quotations
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Desire,
Fear,
Here,
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Life,
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Nor,
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Than,
Thing,
Tranquillity,
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Because,
Desire,
Fear,
Here,
Itself,
Life,
Live,
Mind,
More,
Motion,
Never,
Nor,
Perpetual,
Sense,
Such,
Than,
Thing,
Tranquillity,
While,
Without
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