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• For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Fighting, Battle

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• From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler

  Thomas Hobbes

  Passion, Men, Names

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Evil, Uniting

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

  Thomas Hobbes

  Art, Deliverance, Existence

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• For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth; and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member of the Body of Man.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Body, Earth

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.162, 谷月社

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• Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Men, Welcome

  Leviathan "A Review and Conclusion" (1651)

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• 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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  Wise, Wisdom, Writing

  Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes, David Grene (1989). “The Peloponnesian War”, p.584, University of Chicago Press

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• The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet it serves them to little use in common life; in which they govern themselves, some better, some worse, according to their differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one another.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Night

  1651 Leviathan, pt.4, ch.44.

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• There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Math, Together, University

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• But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

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  Bible, God, Believe

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• For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Justice, Excuse

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.179

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• Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Perseverance, Passion, Animal

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

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  God, Men, Order

  Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall, Vere Chappell (1999). “Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Men, Battle

  Thomas Hobbes (2013). “Leviathan”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that have been given out for miracles, according as he shall see what benefits can accrue by men's belief, to those that pretend, or countenance them, and thereby conjecture whether they be miracles or lies.

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  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Kings, Identity, Substance

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.393, Broadview Press

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• No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Bounds

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.219, Xist Publishing

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• For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Sick, Religion, Pills

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 3, ch. 32

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• Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Hurt, Men, Election

  Thomas Hobbes (1839). “Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition”, p.18

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• A naturall foole that could never learn by heart the order of numerall words, as one , two , and three , may observe every stroak of the Clock, and nod to it, or say one, one, one; but can never know what houre it strikes.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Heart, Order, Two

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.62, Xist Publishing

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• I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.

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  Liberty, May, Too Much

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

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• The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Knowledge, Math

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

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• The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Sight, Add, Covenant

  Thomas Hobbes (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.130

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• The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

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  Bible, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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