Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
THOMAS HOBBESIf I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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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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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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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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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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