Memorable Quotes and quotations from Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes English political philosopher (1588 - 1679)


Thomas Hobbes - quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
- Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes -
- Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes - "The Leviathan"
- The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes -
- All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Thomas Hobbes -
- Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Thomas Hobbes -
- Leisure is the mother of philosophy.