| 1640 | The Elements of Law |
| p.-6 | 7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Tuck] |
| p.65 | 7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Tuck] |
| p.68 | 7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Tuck] |
| p.74 | 7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Tuck] |
| I.10.2 | p.89 | 7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature |
| I.11.5 | p.326 | 16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses |
| I.2.10 | p.181 | 16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them |
| I.4.10 | p.59 | 7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths |
| I.7.3 | p.62 | 7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them |
| 1640 | Human Nature |
| Ch.IX | p.11 | 6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others |
| Ch.IX.13 | p.10 | 6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly |
| Ch.VII.1 | p.4 | 6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head |
| Ch.VII.3 | p.5 | 6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us |
| Ch.VII.6 | p.5 | 6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end |
| Ch.XII.5 | p.16 | 6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd |
| 1642 | De Cive |
| 12.II | p.85 | 23609 | I act justly if I follow my Prince in an apparently unjust war, and refusing to fight would be injustice |
| 1642 | De Mundo (On the World) |
| 12.5 | p.679 | 16789 | Only supernatural means could annihilate anything once it had being |
| 1650 | Letter to Bramhall |
| 4:302 | p.116 | 16620 | A chair is wood, and its shape is the form; it isn't 'compounded' of the matter and form |
| 4:308 | p.117 | 16622 | Essence is just an artificial word from logic, giving a way of thinking about substances |
| 1651 | Leviathan |
| p.16 | 20484 | We should obey the laws of nature, provided other people are also obeying them [Wolff,J] |
| p.17 | 20485 | Hobbes says people are roughly equal; Locke says there is no right to impose inequality [Wolff,J] |
| p.20 | 5337 | For Hobbes the Golden Rule concerns not doing things, whereas Jesus encourages active love [Flanagan] |
| p.53 | 19764 | Hobbes attributed to savages the passions which arise in a law-bound society [Rousseau] |
| p.62 | 20566 | Hobbes says the people voluntarily give up their sovereignty, in a contract with a ruler [Oksala] |
| p.132 | 8014 | Resolve a complex into simple elements, then reconstruct the complex by using them [MacIntyre] |
| p.195 | 7573 | The legal positivism of Hobbes said law is just formal or procedural [Jolley] |
| 1.01 | p.86 | 2356 | Appearance and reality can be separated by mirrors and echoes |
| 1.02 | p.90 | 2357 | Dreams must be false because they seem absurd, but dreams don't see waking as absurd |
| 1.05 | p.113 | 2358 | Freedom is absence of opposition to action; the idea of 'free will' is absurd |
| 1.06 | p.119 | 2359 | Desire and love are the same, but in the desire the object is absent, and in love it is present |
| 1.06 | p.120 | 2360 | 'Good' is just what we desire, and 'Evil' what we hate |
| 1.06 | p.124 | 2361 | If fear of unknown powers is legal it is religion, if it is illegal it is superstition |
| 1.06 | p.127 | 2362 | The will is just the last appetite before action |
| 1.06 | p.128 | 2363 | Reason is usually general, but deliberation is of particulars |
| 1.12 | p.171 | 2364 | Causation is only observation of similar events following each other, with nothing visible in between |
| 1.12 | p.172 | 2365 | Religion is built on ignorance and misinterpretation of what is unknown or frightening |
| 1.13 | p.183 | 2366 | There is not enough difference between people for one to claim more benefit than another |
| 1.13 | p.186 | 2367 | In time of war the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short |
| 1.13 | p.187 | 2368 | Men's natural desires are no sin, and neither are their actions, until law makes it so |
| 1.14 | p.190 | 2369 | If we seek peace and defend ourselves, we must compromise on our rights |
| 1.14 | p.192 | 2371 | A contract is a mutual transfer of rights |
| 1.14 | p.192 | 2370 | All voluntary acts aim at some good for the doer |
| 1.14 | p.195 | 2372 | The person who performs first in a contract is said to 'merit' the return, and is owed it |
| 1.14 | p.196 | 2375 | Suspicion will not destroy a contract, if there is a common power to enforce it |
| 1.14 | p.196 | 2374 | In the violent state of nature, the merest suspicion is enough to justify breaking a contract |
| 1.14 | p.196 | 2373 | The first performer in a contract is handing himself over to an enemy |
| 1.15 | p.202 | 2376 | Injustice is the failure to keep a contract, and justice is the constant will to give what is owed |
| 1.15 | p.205 | 2377 | No one who admitted to not keeping contracts could ever be accepted as a citizen |
| 1.15 | p.206 | 2379 | If there is a good reason for breaking a contract, the same reason should have stopped the making of it |
| 1.15 | p.206 | 2378 | Belief in an afterlife is based on poorly founded gossip |
| 1.15 | p.210 | 2380 | Punishment should only be for reform or deterrence |
| 1.15 | p.215 | 2382 | Someone who keeps all his contracts when others are breaking them is making himself a prey to others |
| 1.15 | p.216 | 2383 | Virtues are a means to peaceful, sociable and comfortable living |
| I.6 | p.87 | 23987 | The 'simple passions' are appetite, desire, love, aversion, hate, joy, and grief [Goldie] |
| II.Ch.XI | p.56 | 6214 | Liberty and necessity are consistent, as when water freely flows, by necessity |
| IV.46 | p.689 | 7559 | Every part of the universe is body, and non-body is not part of it |
| Pt 1 | p.137 | 8015 | Hobbes wants a contract to found morality, but shared values are needed to make a contract [MacIntyre] |
| Pt 1 | p.138 | 8016 | Fear of sanctions is the only motive for acceptance of authority that Hobbes can think of [MacIntyre] |
| 1652 | Letters to the Lord Marquis of Newcastle |
| p.209 | 2384 | Those actions that follow immediately the last appetite are voluntary |
| p.210 | 2385 | If a man suddenly develops an intention of doing something, the cause is out of his control, not in his will |
| 1654 | Of Liberty and Necessity |
| §95 | p.65 | 6215 | 'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause |
| 1655 | De Corpore (Elements, First Section) |
| 1.6.04 | p.21 | 17233 | Particulars contain universal things |
| 1.6.06 | p.23 | 17234 | Motion is losing one place and acquiring another |
| 1.6.10 | p.28 | 17235 | A cause is the complete sum of the features which necessitate the effect |
| 1.6.11 | p.31 | 17236 | Words are not for communication, but as marks for remembering what we have learned |
| 1.6.13 | p.32 | 17237 | Definitions of things that are caused must express their manner of generation |
| 1.6.13 | p.33 | 17238 | Science aims to show causes and generation of things |
| 1.6.14 | p.34 | 17239 | Definition is resolution of names into successive genera, and finally the difference |
| 1.6.15 | p.35 | 17240 | Definitions are the first step in philosophy |
| 1.6.15 | p.36 | 17241 | A defined name should not appear in the definition |
| 1.6.18 | p.39 | 17242 | 'Petitio principii' is reusing the idea to be defined, in disguised words |
| 2.07.03 | p.46 | 17243 | Past times can't exist anywhere, apart from in our memories |
| 2.07.08 | p.48 | 17244 | To make a whole, parts needn't be put together, but can be united in the mind |
| 2.07.09 | p.49 | 17245 | A part of a part is a part of a whole |
| 2.08.01 | p.53 | 14960 | Bodies are independent of thought, and coincide with part of space |
| 2.08.02 | p.54 | 16670 | Accidents are just modes of thinking about bodies |
| 2.08.03 | p.54 | 16621 | Accidents are not parts of bodies (like blood in a cloth); they have accidents as things have a size |
| 2.08.03 | p.55 | 17246 | Some accidental features are permanent, unless the object perishes |
| 2.08.05 | p.56 | 17247 | The only generalities or universals are names or signs |
| 2.08.05 | p.57 | 17248 | If a whole body is moved, its parts must move with it |
| 2.08.08 | p.58 | 17250 | If you separate the two places of one thing, you will also separate the thing |
| 2.08.08 | p.58 | 17249 | If you separated two things in the same place, you would also separate the places |
| 2.08.20 | p.66 | 16582 | We can imagine a point swelling and contracting - but not how this could be done |
| 2.08.23 | p.67 | 17251 | The feature which picks out or names a thing is usually called its 'essence' |
| 2.08.24 | p.68 | 16600 | Prime matter is body considered with mere size and extension, and potential |
| 2.09.01 | p.69 | 17252 | Acting on a body is either creating or destroying a property in it |
| 2.09.06 | p.73 | 17253 | Change is nothing but movement |
| 2.10.01 | p.77 | 16734 | The complete power of an event is just the aggregate of the qualities that produced it |
| 2.10.02 | p.77 | 17254 | An effect needs a sufficient and necessary cause |
| 2.11.02 | p.81 | 17255 | Two bodies differ when (at some time) you can say something of one you can't say of the other |
| 2.11.07 | p.85 | 16794 | As an infant, Socrates was not the same body, but he was the same human being |
| 2.11.07 | p.85 | 12853 | Some individuate the ship by unity of matter, and others by unity of form |
| 2.11.07 | p.85 | 17256 | If a new ship were made of the discarded planks, would two ships be numerically the same? |
| 2.11.07 | p.85 | 16790 | A body is always the same, whether the parts are together or dispersed |
| 2.11.07 | p.86 | 17257 | It is the same river if it has the same source, no matter what flows in it |
| 2.12.05 | p.89 | 17258 | If we just say one, one, one, one, we don't know where we have got to |
| 3.15.02 | p.100 | 17259 | 'Force' is the quantity of movement imposed on something |
| 3.15.02 | p.116 | 2948 | Sensation is merely internal motion of the sentient being |
| 4.25.07 | p.121 | 17260 | Imagination is just weakened sensation |
| 4.25.13 | p.134 | 17261 | Apart from pleasure and pain, the only emotions are appetite and aversion |
| p.178 | p.55 | 19373 | A 'conatus' is an initial motion, experienced by us as desire or aversion [Arthur,R] |