Quotes by : Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is a lust of the mind.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence....

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to....

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions....

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is....