325 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Scientia potentia est.Knowledge is power.

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

If I had read as many books as other people, I would know as little.

Primum vivere deinde philosophari - First one must live, then one may philosophize.

As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.