Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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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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