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.
THOMAS HOBBESCuriosity is the lust of the mind.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Knowledge is power.
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