60+ Thomas Hobbes Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
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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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
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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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
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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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
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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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word

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