The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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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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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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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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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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