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
THOMAS HOBBESFor it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Knowledge is power.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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