Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBESAll acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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