The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBESCuriosity is the lust of the mind.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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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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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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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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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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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 it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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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 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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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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