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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.

Thomas Hobbes

Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
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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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Death Philosophy Victory War World
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
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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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple
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
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap

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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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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