A great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESSilence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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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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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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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 itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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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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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Knowledge is power.
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