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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

Thomas 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.
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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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False Philosophy Truth
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man

The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

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