Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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.
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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but 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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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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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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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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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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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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