That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESThe understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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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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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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