Quotes from Thomas Hobbes

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

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.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

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?

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

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.

Words are the money of fools.

Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

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.

The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.

Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.