Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
THOMAS HOBBESIt is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Where 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.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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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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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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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?
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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