The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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.
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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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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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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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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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A great leap in the dark.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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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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