Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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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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Knowledge is power.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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