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

Thomas Hobbes

Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
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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Death Philosophy Victory War World
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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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
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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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue

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

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