Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
THOMAS HOBBESDesire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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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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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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