For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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