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Author: Thomas Hobbes
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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Thomas Hobbes
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.
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.
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Thomas Hobbes
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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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Thomas Hobbes
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
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Thomas Hobbes
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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Thomas Hobbes
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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Thomas Hobbes
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
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Thomas Hobbes
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.
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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Thomas Hobbes
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.
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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Thomas Hobbes
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