Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
THOMAS HOBBESAnd if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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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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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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