Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBESSilence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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