The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESIn 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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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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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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