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Thomas Hobbes Inspirational Quotes (130)

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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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The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.
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The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.
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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
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If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
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To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.
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Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short
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The Present only has a being in Nature things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all the Future but a fiction of the mind.
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This is that law of the Gospel whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them.
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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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Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
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Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
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Scientia potentia est, sed parva quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.
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Nature itself cannot err
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By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
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The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
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Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
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The value or worth of a man is, as of all other things, his price that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
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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 object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
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The law is the public conscience.
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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
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Covenants without swords are but words.
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