The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
THOMAS HOBBESLife is nasty, brutish, and short.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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