Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
THOMAS HOBBESIt’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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