Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESTrue’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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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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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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 power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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