I had requested all who might find aught meriting censure in my writings, to do me the favor of pointing it out to me, I may state that no objections worthy of remark have been alleged against what I then said on these questions except two, to which I will here briefly reply.

Thomas Hobbes


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A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous

Thomas Hobbes


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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

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Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.

Thomas Hobbes

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

Thomas Hobbes


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

Thomas Hobbes


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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy

Thomas Hobbes


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... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Thomas Hobbes


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Homo homini lupus

Thomas Hobbes


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

Thomas Hobbes

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