Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Men, Welcome

  Leviathan "A Review and Conclusion" (1651)

• There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Pain, Men, Long

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

• 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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Perseverance, Passion, Animal

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

• Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Grief, Self, Envy

  Thomas Hobbes, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1999). “The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives”, p.54, Oxford University Press, USA

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