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A great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

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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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
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
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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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Evil Follow Good Great Past
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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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Design Man Philosophy
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple
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
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
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
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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Game Justice Law
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Dream Myself Philosophy Thought
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth

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