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?
THOMAS HOBBESAs a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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