Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
THOMAS HOBBESPower simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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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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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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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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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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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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