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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Man Power Price Value Worth
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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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Death Philosophy Victory War World
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short

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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