Thomas Hobbes Quote

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.


Leviathan (1651) pt. 1, ch. 10


The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.