Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Glory

Quotes about: Glory

• So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. The first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men's persons, wives, children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their persons or by reflection in their kindred, their friends, their nation, their profession, or their name.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Children, Men, Reflection

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.95, Broadview Press

• Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Happiness, Laughter, Philosophical

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

• Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  'Human Nature' (1650) ch. 9, sect. 13

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