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Thomas Hobbes14 quotes
In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651Curiosity...is a Lust of the mind. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651No 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 · 1651Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651Riches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651All 14 quotes →Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke2 quotes
Nations, like men, have their infancy. — Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke · 1752The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous or thinking that they can be made so by laws. — Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke · 1728Christopher Wren1 quote
Architecture aims at Eternity. — Christopher Wren · 1680Desmond Morris1 quote
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. — Desmond Morris · 1967Francis Kilvert1 quote
It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain. — Francis Kilvert · 1871Sir John Davies1 quote
I know my soul hath power to know all things,
Yet is she blind and ignorant in all:
I know I'm one of Nature's little kings,
Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall. — Sir John Davies · 1599