Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
THOMAS HOBBESLife is nasty, brutish, and short.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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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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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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Knowledge is power.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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