Occupation: Philosopher Birth: April 5, 1588 Death: December 4, 1679
If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun..
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,….
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent..
No arts, no letters - no society..
The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of e….
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustic….
The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes..
It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for….
The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason..
If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies..
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short..
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power..
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money..
I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking..
Curiosity is the lust of the mind..
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government….
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone..
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing..
Hell is Truth Seen Too Late..
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social..
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor ….