Such truth, as opposed no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

— Thomas Hobbes

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it's 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.

— Thomas Hobbes

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

— Thomas Hobbes

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.

— Thomas Hobbes

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

— Thomas Hobbes

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.

— Thomas Hobbes

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasted by which he is able to protect them.

— Thomas Hobbes

Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, ‘that the three angles of a triangle should be equal to two angles of a square,’ that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of geometry suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able.

— Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

— Thomas Hobbes

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

— Thomas Hobbes