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
THOMAS HOBBESLife is nasty, brutish, and short.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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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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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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