The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBESKnowledge is power.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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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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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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