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Age of Enlightenment7 quotes
In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651No 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 Hobbes · 1651Riches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651All 7 quotes →The Renaissance3 quotes
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651The papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition, and mutual envy of the living. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651