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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
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When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.
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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 law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.
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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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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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So that every Crime is a sinne but not every sinne a Crime.
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To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
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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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If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
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For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.
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How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.
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A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.
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When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another which is as much as to know it together.
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
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Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
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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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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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