The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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