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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.
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 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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Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
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But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.
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And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
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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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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
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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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Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
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The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Covenants without swords are but words.
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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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