Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
THOMAS HOBBESThe 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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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Knowledge is power.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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