Political literature · Philosophical literatureIn 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 HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 9.6
Political literature · Philosophical literatureCuriosity...is a Lust of the mind.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 8.0
Political literature · Philosophical literatureNo 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 HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 7.1
Political literature · Philosophical literatureSuch truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 4.6
Political literature · Philosophical literatureRiches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 4.0
Political literature · Philosophical literatureI put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 3.9
Political literature · Philosophical literatureDuring 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 HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 3.8
Political literature · Philosophical literatureReligion; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 3.7
PoemLord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.Henry WottonThe Character of a Happy Life · 1651★ 3.6
Political literature · Philosophical literatureForce, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 2.3
Political literature · Philosophical literatureThe papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 2.2
Political literature · Philosophical literatureTrue and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 2.2
Political literature · Philosophical literatureThe praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition, and mutual envy of the living.Thomas HobbesLeviathan · 1651★ 1.3
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