Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

The word love can be explained in thousands of ways, but the only word that comes to my mind is you. I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.close quote - Thomas Hobbes

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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.close quote - Thomas Hobbes
Words are the money of fools.close quote - Thomas Hobbes
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.close quote - Thomas Hobbes
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.close quote - Thomas Hobbes
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.close quote - Thomas Hobbes
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.close quote - Thomas Hobbes
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.close quote - Thomas Hobbes

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

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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.close quote - Thomas Hobbes
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.close quote - Thomas Hobbes
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.close quote - Thomas Hobbes
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.close quote - Thomas Hobbes
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.close quote - Thomas Hobbes

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