I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
THOMAS HOBBESit is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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