Tag: Thomas Hobbes
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes
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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Thomas Hobbes
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
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Such is the nature of men, 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.
Thomas Hobbes
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Thomas Hobbes