Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
THOMAS HOBBESLife is nasty, brutish, and short.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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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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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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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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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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A great leap in the dark.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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