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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.

Thomas Hobbes

Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
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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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
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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False Philosophy Truth
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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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Game Justice Law
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
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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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy

I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.

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