Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
THOMAS HOBBESI put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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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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