As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBESThe Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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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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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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 is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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A great leap in the dark.
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