it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
THOMAS HOBBESNow I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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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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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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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A great leap in the dark.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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