For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
THOMAS HOBBESDesire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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