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.
THOMAS HOBBESFor to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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