I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
THOMAS HOBBESLife itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Knowledge is power.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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