In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
THOMAS HOBBESIt is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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A great leap in the dark.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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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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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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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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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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 light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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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 condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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