Thomas Hobbes English Philosopher Quotations

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

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

They that approve a private opinion, call it an opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

A man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.