Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
THOMAS HOBBESThe first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Knowledge is power.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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