Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESit is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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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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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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