Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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![A lust of the mind. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/79/28979A-a-lust-of-the-mind-thomas-hobbes.png)
A lust of the mind.
![Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/49/23549A-leisure-is-the-mother-of-philosophy-thomas-hobbes.png)
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
![Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/95/41895A-force-and-fraud-are-in-war-two-cardinal-virtues-thomas-hobbes.png)
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
![True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/30/40030A-true-and-false-are-attributes-of-speech-not-things-thomas-hobbes.png)
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things.
![Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/69/5169A-words-are-the-counters-of-wise-men-money-fools-thomas-hobbes.png)
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
![Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/31/51231A-sudden-glory-is-the-passion-which-maketh-those-grimaces-called-thomas-hobbes.png)
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
![Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/82/10582A-science-is-the-knowledge-of-consequences-dependence-one-fact-upon-thomas-hobbes.png)
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
![A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/57/20057A-a-man-with-a-career-can-have-no-time-waste-thomas-hobbes.png)
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.
![All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/87/20187A-all-generous-minds-have-a-horror-what-are-commonly-called-thomas-hobbes.png)
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
![So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/01/301A-so-that-in-the-nature-of-man-we-find-three-thomas-hobbes.png)
So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory.
![They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/19/21119A-they-that-approve-a-private-opinion-call-it-opinion-but-thomas-hobbes.png)
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
![Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/15/51215A-laughter-is-nothing-else-but-sudden-glory-arising-from-some-thomas-hobbes.png)
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
![There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility 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. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/91/37191A-there-is-no-such-thing-as-perpetual-tranquility-mind-while-thomas-hobbes.png)
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility 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.