Thomas Hobbes on death
Thomas Hobbes66 quotes“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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes 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
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes 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.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is an injustice to none of them.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Knowledge is power.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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The eighth deathly sin; a being comfortably lowering their standards for a person who isn’t worthy or good enough to be with someone like them.
Diary S.HDiary S.H In the veins of poets flows ink, with which they create words for eternity. When they die a part of their souls will still stay alive in their poetry.
Daniela SenickDaniela Senick I hate that time flies away too soon. I hate that dreams die faster when I don’t have you.
Quinn ZukowskiQuinn Zukowski She had a precious light in her heart, that kept him alive in the moments he desired death, she was his savior.
Dr. Zainab AnsariDr. Zainab Ansari I just hope that when I die my body is full of scars telling a beautiful life.
A.J XanderA.J Xander 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
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes For he has conquered death, with the gift of His last breath. Go now, and share the news, the Savior beckons you.
JN FenwickJN Fenwick Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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