5 Thomas Hobbes Quotes on History

Thomas Hobbes quotes on history

6. The condition of Man...is a condition of Warre of every one against every one.

24. During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

25. For War, consisteth not in Battell onely, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to contend by Battell is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of Time, is to be considered in the nature of Warre; as it is in the nature of Weather.

42. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy, is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power.

43. The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.