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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

Thomas Hobbes

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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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
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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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
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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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
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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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
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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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
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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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read

The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

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