Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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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 condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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