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The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES

Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
THOMAS HOBBES

The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as w...
THOMAS HOBBES

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or mo...
THOMAS HOBBES

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBES

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals.....
THOMAS HOBBES

Pleasure therefore, (or Delight,) is the appearance or sense of Good; and Molestation or Displeasure...
THOMAS HOBBES

Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ...
THOMAS HOBBES

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition ...
THOMAS HOBBES

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will ...
THOMAS HOBBES

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, ...
THOMAS HOBBES

Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of deligh...
THOMAS HOBBES

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as...
THOMAS HOBBES

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
THOMAS HOBBES

Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBES

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equal...
THOMAS HOBBES

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
THOMAS HOBBES

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
THOMAS HOBBES

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
THOMAS HOBBES

The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.
THOMAS HOBBES

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
THOMAS HOBBES

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed ...
THOMAS HOBBES

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbe...
THOMAS HOBBES

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
THOMAS HOBBES

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he s...
THOMAS HOBBES

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
THOMAS HOBBES

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
THOMAS HOBBES

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for th...
THOMAS HOBBES

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provid...
THOMAS HOBBES

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an...
THOMAS HOBBES

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, w...
THOMAS HOBBES

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions...
THOMAS HOBBES

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
THOMAS HOBBES

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ou...
THOMAS HOBBES

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet here...
THOMAS HOBBES

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute bea...
THOMAS HOBBES

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent
THOMAS HOBBES

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave ...
THOMAS HOBBES

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBES

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet here...
THOMAS HOBBES

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
THOMAS HOBBES

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
THOMAS HOBBES

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained fr...
THOMAS HOBBES

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more indiv...
THOMAS HOBBES

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more...
THOMAS HOBBES

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
THOMAS HOBBES

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES

Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all. The bonds of...
THOMAS HOBBES

Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBES

Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight...
THOMAS HOBBES

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBES

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent goo...
THOMAS HOBBES

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that val...
THOMAS HOBBES

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of t...
THOMAS HOBBES

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but t...
THOMAS HOBBES

I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBES

The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
THOMAS HOBBES

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only
THOMAS HOBBES

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law
THOMAS HOBBES

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent dea...
THOMAS HOBBES

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casu...
THOMAS HOBBES

Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBES

So that in the nature of man,
we find three principal causes of quarrel:

First, Comp...
THOMAS HOBBES

For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pr...
THOMAS HOBBES

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the for...
THOMAS HOBBES

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able...
THOMAS HOBBES

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES - "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."
CALVIN & HOBBES Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
CALVIN & HOBBES Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'...
CALVIN & HOBBES

When a man forgets his ideals, he may hope for happiness, but not till then
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly ...
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you...
CALVIN & HOBBES Unfortunately for my report, mom caught me and I didn't get to see how it ended.
CALVIN & HOBBES When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
MICKALENE THOMAS

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE

These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS

I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS

We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS

We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS

My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS

The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS

Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS

You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS

I love what I'm doing.
ISAIAH THOMAS

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.

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