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A great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

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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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
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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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Animal Body Philosophy Spirit
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Man Power Price Value Worth
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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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
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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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
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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Body Deep Philosophy Universe

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