The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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