Thomas Hobbes Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 22, 2024
‘It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.’ – Thomas Hobbes
‘The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.’ – Thomas Hobbes
‘Curiosity is the lust of the mind.’ – Thomas Hobbes
‘Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.’ – Thomas Hobbes
‘Words are the money of fools.’ – Thomas Hobbes
‘The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.’ – Thomas Hobbes
‘So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.’ – Thomas Hooker
‘Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God’s Word, or natural means.’ – Thomas Hooker
‘I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.’ – Thomas Hooker
‘Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?’ – Thomas Hooker