Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
THOMAS HOBBESFor such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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