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.
THOMAS HOBBESThe light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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