The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBESThat Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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