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.
THOMAS HOBBESTrue’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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