The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESPhilosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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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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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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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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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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