That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESLeisure is the mother of Philosophy.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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A great leap in the dark.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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