Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
THOMAS HOBBESAll acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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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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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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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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