Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
THOMAS HOBBESPhilosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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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.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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