Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBESLeisure is the mother of Philosophy.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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 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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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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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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