For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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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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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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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A great leap in the dark.
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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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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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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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