Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBESThe first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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What 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?
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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