Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBESThe understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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