The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESLook not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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