Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
THOMAS HOBBESA great leap in the dark.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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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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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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