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.
THOMAS HOBBESLeisure is the mother of Philosophy.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Knowledge is power.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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