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

Thomas Hobbes

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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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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False Philosophy Truth
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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
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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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
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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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Man Power Price Value Worth
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Game Justice Law
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire 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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

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