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• I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Authority And Power, Desire, Leviathan

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 11 (1651)

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

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Dark, Journey

  Last words, in John Watkins 'Anecdotes of Men of Learning' (1808

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• All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Spring, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Gert (1972). “Man and Citizen: De Homine and De Cive”, p.114, Hackett Publishing

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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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Arte, Guerra, Hombres

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 1, ch. 13

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• I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Thinking, Matter, Capable

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• Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

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  Faith, Men, Giving

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes, 1651.

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• The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Knowledge, Science, Power

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.7

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• The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.

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  Memories, Future, Past

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.15, Hackett Publishing

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• They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.

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  Creer, Hombres, Pensar

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 2, ch. 19

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• Tal es la naturaleza de los hombres, que por más que reconozcan que muchos otros son más ingeniosos, o más elocuentes, o más doctos; sin embargo, difícilmente creerán que haya muchos tan sabios como ellos mismos.

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  Sabio, Sabiduría, Ingenioso

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.94, Broadview Press

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• Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Pride, Political, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.312, Broadview Press

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• The law is the public conscience.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Law, Conscience

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.173, Hackett Publishing

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• A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

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  Men, Liberty, Able

  1651 Leviathan, pt.2, ch.21.

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• A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Media, Hombres, Ley

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). "Leviatán, Partes I y II", p.98, Broadview Press

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• Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mind, Atheism, Superstitions

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Taken, Jail

  Thomas Hobbes (1651). “Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill”, p.391

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• Sin artes, sin letras, sin sociedad.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Art, Letters

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651)

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• Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Atheism, Belief

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• The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

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  Facts, Register

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.46, Hackett Publishing

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• 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.

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  Fear, War, Men

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651)

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• The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.

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  Men, Desire, Way

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.55, Hackett Publishing

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• La conciencia y el juicio de un hombre son la misma cosa; y así como el juicio, también la conciencia puede ser errónea.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Hombres, Juzgar, Mayo

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). "Leviatán: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil", p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• No hay acción del hombre en esta vida que no sea el principio de una cadena tan larga de consecuencias, como no hay providencia humana lo bastante elevada para dar al hombre una perspectiva al final. Y en esta cadena se enlazan sucesos agradables y desagradables de tal manera que el que quiera hacer algo por su placer debe comprometerse a sufrir todos los dolores anexos.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Pain, Men, Long

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Covenant, Void

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Progress, Desire, Way

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.137

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