To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
Thomas HobbesThe source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.
Thomas HobbesWhat is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
Thomas HobbesFor it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
Thomas HobbesTag: philosophy peace war
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
Thomas HobbesHell is truth seen too late.
Thomas Hobbesliberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
Thomas HobbesNo arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas HobbesFor, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy, or kingdom of darkness, may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies; that is, to the old wives' fables in England concerning ghosts and spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power.
Thomas HobbesTag: belief religion atheism rationality skepticism materialism roman-empire paranormal spiritualism fairies catholic-church heathen supernaturalism
The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise onely: which Rules, neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had the curiosity, or the method to find out.
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