Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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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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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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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 Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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