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The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

Thomas Hobbes

Passion, Men, Reason

Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Thomas Hobbes

Passion, Madness, Mere

Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

Thomas Hobbes

Ignorance, Passion, Errors

Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

Thomas Hobbes

Passion, Ambition, Political

Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

Thomas Hobbes

Passion, Atheism, Different

Thomas Hobbes (1840). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Dialogue between a philosopher and a student of the common laws in England. Behemoth: The history of the causes of the civil wars of England. The whole art of rhetoric. The art of rhetoric, plainly set forth. The art of sophistry”, p.174

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

Thomas Hobbes

Passion, Men, Animal

Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.119

And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.

Thomas Hobbes

Ignorance, Passion, Men

Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler

Thomas Hobbes

Passion, Men, Names

Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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