Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
THOMAS HOBBESFor prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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