Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
THOMAS HOBBESLeisure is the mother of Philosophy.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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