Thomas Hobbes Quotes

If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair.

Give an inch he'll take an ell.

Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture.

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

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.