For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
THOMAS HOBBESFear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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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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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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