The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESCovenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Knowledge is power.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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