And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
THOMAS HOBBESWhen all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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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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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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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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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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A great leap in the dark.
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