Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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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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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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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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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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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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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