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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
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
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
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
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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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
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

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