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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
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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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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
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Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for and to place it accordingly or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs the more he struggles, the more belimed.
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No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
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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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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
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The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
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And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.
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Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
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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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But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.
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As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.
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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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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.
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As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance to the Sight, Light and Color to the Ear, Sound to the Nostril, Odor, &c.
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