For 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.
THOMAS HOBBESA great leap in the dark.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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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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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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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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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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