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.
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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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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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Knowledge is power.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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