When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
Category Archive: Thomas Hobbes
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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.