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A great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
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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False Philosophy Truth
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word

A great leap in the dark.

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