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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
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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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

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