4 Thomas Hobbes Quotes on Human nature

Thomas Hobbes quotes on human nature

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

10. The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.

13. 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; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.

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.