QUOTES by Thomas Hobbes
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Liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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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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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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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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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body
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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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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone
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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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