Quote #15
The 'value' or 'worth' of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
More from Thomas Hobbes
- The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, prophane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame, or blame:
- By Manners, I mean not here decency of behaviour; as how one man should salute another, or how a man should wash his mouth, or pick his tee…
- Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; bu…
- Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latte…
- Hope For Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called HOPE. Despaire The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE.
- In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only …
- Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
- Man gives indifferent names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions; as they that approve a private opinion cal…