It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
THOMAS HOBBESThe 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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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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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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