It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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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 Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Knowledge is power.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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