As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBESWhat 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?
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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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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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Knowledge is power.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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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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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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