Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESThe 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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 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 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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