That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESThe secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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