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.
THOMAS HOBBESWhatsoever 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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