Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Fear

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  • Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

    Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.110, Broadview Press
  • 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 each other.

    Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Gert (1972). “Man and Citizen: De Homine and De Cive”, p.113, Hackett Publishing
  • 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.

    Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651)
  • 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 without fear, no more than without sense.

    Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
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