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.
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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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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 a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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