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.
THOMAS HOBBESNo 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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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