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
THOMAS HOBBESConcerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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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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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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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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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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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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