This is especially apparent when Hobbes' states "For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire" (p34). .
By this explanation of human nature, Hobbes is then able to construct his argument that it is impossible for human beings to live in continual security and peace without an overarching authority to take dominion over what he coins as the commonwealth. His argument can be divided into three principle causes that lead to conflict: the unavoidable rise of competition amongst humans, the inherent diffidence or lack of trust in others, and the need to seek glory. To address the first part of his argument, it is necessary to understand Hobbes' reasoning that competition among humans will be inevitable. The desires for security of the basic necessities of life as well as our inability to be perfectly contempt with the power we already have are the fundamental conceptions in explaining why competition is prevalent in the state of nature, since the measures of one's power is relative to the power of others. The second part of his argument is based on the belief that no one person can have superiority when competing with others based on the fact that every one person is predominantly equal in his or her ability to kill one another. That being said, Hobbes argues that humans challenge and fight one another out of fear in order to ensure one's security. The last part of Hobbes' argument focuses on the notion that every person seeks admiration from others. Stating the importance of one's reputation in the overall scheme of self-preservation further enhances this idea. Since Hobbes concludes that reputation equates to power in the sense that a reputation of having power will strike fear among those who may wish to cause them harm. Because of this natural condition of mankind, Hobbes describes its' results as follows, "during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man" (p76).