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English Philosopher April 5, 1588 – December 4, 1679

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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,... Thomas Hobbes
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. 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. Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault..."
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. Thomas Hobbes
For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy, or kingdom of darkness, may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies; that is, to the old wives' fables in England concerning ghosts and spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the papacy is no other than the ghost of... Thomas Hobbes
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently. Thomas Hobbes
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. Thomas Hobbes
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice. Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all..."
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. Thomas Hobbes
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. Thomas Hobbes
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. Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy,..."
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. Thomas Hobbes
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues. Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist..."
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to..."
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. Thomas Hobbes

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