Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBESLeisure is the mother of Philosophy.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Knowledge is power.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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