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

Thomas Hobbes

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
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 things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move 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
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
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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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Animal Body Philosophy Spirit

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

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