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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thomas HobbesConscience - 2
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas HobbesCuriosity - 3
Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
Thomas HobbesCuriosity - 4
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.
Thomas HobbesReligion - 5
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas HobbesWar -
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Thomas HobbesPrison - 7
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas HobbesFamous last words - 8
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Thomas HobbesProfits - 9
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
Thomas HobbesLeisure - 10
Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
Thomas HobbesKnowledge - 11
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas HobbesMistakes - 12
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas HobbesCaution - 13
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas HobbesScience and Scientists - 14
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.
Thomas HobbesWisdom - 15
Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas HobbesGlory -
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
Thomas HobbesFood and Eating - 17
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.
Thomas HobbesState - 18
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas HobbesBooks - Classics - 19
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Thomas HobbesAbsurdity - 20
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Thomas HobbesSecrets - 21
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas HobbesTranquility - 22
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas HobbesUnderstanding - 23
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
Thomas HobbesBattle - 24
Words are the money of fools.
Thomas HobbesWords - 25
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
Thomas HobbesWords
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