For example, human houses protect us from hostile climates. To reverse a statement made by Ralph Waldo Emerson, for Hobbes, that which is built is better than that which builds. Artificial institutions are better than natural human tendencies. The state is better than human nature. Tables are better than, more useful than trees.
Civilization is opposed to and better than freedom.
Safety is more important than happiness. For Hobbes, order is found in neither human nor non-human nature. Order is a human product. What is possible for Descartes, withdrawal from body and external confusion, is impossible for Hobbes. Motion and emotion are the ultimate facts of human existence.