Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
THOMAS HOBBESFor 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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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’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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