Quotes By Thomas Hobbes

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

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.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

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.