Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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