FAMOUS QUOTES OF THOMAS HOBBES

Here are some of Thomas Hobbes's famous quotations:

"Curiosity is the lust of mind."

"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."

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

"Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social."

"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

"No man's error becomes his own law; nor obliges him to persist in it."

"In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right." 

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

 "Words are the money of fools."

 "Only the present has a right to exist because the past is only a memory and the future has no existence."

 "Leisure is the mother of philosophy."

 "Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."

 "Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech."

 "Fear and I were born twins."

 "When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him."