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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

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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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
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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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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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Game Justice Law
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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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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