Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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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 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.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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