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“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
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“For such is the nature of man, 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: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance.”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
“The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone”
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“Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
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“Life is nasty, brutish, and short”
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“Leisure is the mother of Philosophy”
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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.”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
“So that in the nature of man,
we find three principal causes of quarrel:
First, Competition;
Secondly, Dissidence;
Thirdly, Glory.
The first, maketh men invade for Gain;
the second, for Safety;
and the third, for Reputation.
The first use Violence, to make themselves Masters of other men's persons, wives, children and cattle;
the second, to defend them;
the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their Persons, or by reflexion in their Kindred, their Friends, their Nation, their Profession, or their Name.”
― Leviathan
we find three principal causes of quarrel:
First, Competition;
Secondly, Dissidence;
Thirdly, Glory.
The first, maketh men invade for Gain;
the second, for Safety;
and the third, for Reputation.
The first use Violence, to make themselves Masters of other men's persons, wives, children and cattle;
the second, to defend them;
the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their Persons, or by reflexion in their Kindred, their Friends, their Nation, their Profession, or their Name.”
― Leviathan
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
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“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. ”
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“The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.”
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“For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
“God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind that I'll never die".”
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“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.”
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“A great leap in the dark”
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“... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.”
― Man and Citizen
― Man and Citizen
“Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark”
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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 men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
“A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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“He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
“The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
“What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?”
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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.”
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