I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
THOMAS HOBBESI often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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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.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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 first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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