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Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Thomas Hobbes
Desire, Restless, Driven

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

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Thomas Hobbes
Authority And Power, Desire, Leviathan
Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 11 (1651)

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

Thomas Hobbes
Desire, Action, Praise
Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.118, eKitap Projesi

The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.

Thomas Hobbes
Men, Desire, Way
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.55, Hackett Publishing

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

Thomas Hobbes
Progress, Desire, Way
Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.137

So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.

Thomas Hobbes
Mean, Men, Desire
Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 11 (1651)

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Thomas Hobbes
Desire, Fit, Capacity
Thomas Hobbes (1841). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.2

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Thomas Hobbes
Spy, Desire, Way
Thomas Hobbes (1651). “Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill”, p.35

Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.

Thomas Hobbes
Giving, Desire, Lasts
Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.122

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