black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.

Related Topics

Deep Philosophy Power Simple

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
THOMAS HOBBES

Command Man Philosophy Power
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBES

Literature One Liner Philosophy
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
THOMAS HOBBES

Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBES

Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBES

Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
THOMAS HOBBES

Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
A great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBES

Darkness Great Leap
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
THOMAS HOBBES

Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES

Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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.
THOMAS HOBBES

Death Philosophy Victory War World
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
THOMAS HOBBES

Life Nasty One Liner Short
True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
THOMAS HOBBES

False Philosophy Truth
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
THOMAS HOBBES

Conscience Man Religious Sin
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?
THOMAS HOBBES

Deep Heart Philosophy Season
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 HOBBES

Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
THOMAS HOBBES

Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes