English - Philosopher | April 5, 1588 - December 4, 1679
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
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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.
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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.
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
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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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Words are the money of fools.
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
MenPeaceManThinkDownLiberty
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.
DeathManWarWorldVictoryLast
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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