Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBESWar 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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