It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
THOMAS HOBBESSome men’s desires are without limits.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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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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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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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, 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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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