The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESLife is nasty, brutish, and short.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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 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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Knowledge is power.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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