Author: Thomas Hobbes

Cited by

• James Fenton (1)
  • IN: Children in Exile (1994) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: For as at a great distance of place, that which wee look at, appears dimme, and without distinction of the smaller parts; and as Voyces grow weak, and inarticulate: so also after great distance of time, our imagination of the Past is weak; and wee lose (for example) of Cities wee have seen, many particular streets; and of Actions, many particular Circumstances. This decaying sense, which wee would express the thing it self, (I mean fancy it selfe,) wee call Imagination , as I said before: But when we would express the decay, and signifie that the Sense is fading, old, and past, it is called Memory. So that Imagination and Memory are but one thing...
    FROM: Leviathan, (1651), Book, UK
• Andrea Cremer (1)
  • IN: Nightshade (2010) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As for witches, I think not that their witchcraft is any real power.
    FROM: Leviathan, (1651), Book, UK
• Steve Martini (1)
  • IN: Double Tap (2005) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: his is the generation of that great leviathan. . to which we owe. . our peace and defence. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power and strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is enabled to form the wills of them all, to peace at home, and mutual aid against their enemies abroad.
    FROM: Leviathan, (1651), Book, UK
• J. W. Ironmonger (1)
  • IN: Not Forgetting the Whale (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man... there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
    FROM: Leviathan, (1651), Book, UK
• James Elliott (1)
  • IN: Fearless (2015) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.
    FROM: Leviathan, (1651), Book, UK
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State-(in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man.
    FROM: Leviathan, (1651), Book, UK
• Ada Palmer (1)
  • IN: The Will to Battle (2017) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For Warre, consisteth not in Battell only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to contend by Battell is sufficiently known; and therefore the notion of Time, is to be considered in the nature of Warre; as it is in the nature of Weather.
    FROM: Leviathan XIII, (1651), Book, UK
• Elliott James (1)
  • IN: Fearless (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.
    FROM: Leviathan, (1651), Book, UK
• Winifred Holtby (1)
  • IN: Anderby Wold (1923) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Felicity is a continual progresse of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the later … so that, in the first place, I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of power after power which ceaseth only after death ... and there shall be no contentment but proceeding.
    FROM: Leviathan, I, II., (1651), Book, UK