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?
THOMAS HOBBESWhere 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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 to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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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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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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