Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESNor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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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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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 Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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