Famous Thomas Hobbes Quotes

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.
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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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.
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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.
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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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.
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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
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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.
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