The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
THOMAS HOBBES
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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