Quotes by : Thomas Hobbes

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the....

Curiosity is a lust of the mind.

And because the condition of man . . . is a condition of war of every one against every one, in which....

Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair.

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

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

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

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more....