Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
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Famous Thomas Hobbes Quotes
“No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.”
Source: The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750
“Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.”
Source: Leviathan
“Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.”
Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition
“Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.”
Source: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Dialogue between a philosopher and a student of the common laws in England. Behemoth: The history of the causes of the civil wars of England. The whole art of rhetoric. The art of rhetoric, plainly set forth. The art of sophistry
“The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.”
Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition
“I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.”
Source: The treatise on human nature and that on liberty and necessity. With a suppl. to which is prefixed an account of his life and writings by the editor [P. Mallet].
Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil