Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Science is knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

A Free Man is he, that in those things, which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes that want of government is any new kind of government.

The value, or worth of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

In Geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind) men begin at settling the significations of their words; which…they call Definitions.