The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
THOMAS HOBBESA great leap in the dark.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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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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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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A great leap in the dark.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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