Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBESI often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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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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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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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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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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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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