The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
THOMAS HOBBESWords are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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 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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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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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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