Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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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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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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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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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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