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.
THOMAS HOBBESSilence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Knowledge is power.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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