Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The law is the public conscience.
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For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth; and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member of the Body of Man.
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Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
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The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
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If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.
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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.
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But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.