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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Knowledge is power.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes 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.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes
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