Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBESMen are moved by appetites and aversions.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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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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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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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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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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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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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Whatsoever 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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