Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
THOMAS HOBBESThe Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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