Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBESSilence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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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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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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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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A great leap in the dark.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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