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I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion (Us Quotes)
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 (Us Quotes)
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous (Us Quotes)
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain (Us Quotes)
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind (Us Quotes)
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 (Us Quotes)
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense (Us Quotes)
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social (Us Quotes)
The value or worth of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power (Us Quotes)
As first a man cannot lay down the right of resisting them, that assault him by force, to take away his life; because he cannot be understood to aim thereby, at any good to himself (Us Quotes)
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different (Us Quotes)
For a man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous (Us Quotes)
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter (Us Quotes)
Religion; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another (Us Quotes)
The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them (Us Quotes)
Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure (Us Quotes)
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense (Us Quotes)
Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... Which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure (Us Quotes)
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion (Us Quotes)
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it (Us Quotes)
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest (Us Quotes)
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward (Us Quotes)
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power (Us Quotes)
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem (Us Quotes)
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing (Us Quotes)
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come (Us Quotes)
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion (Us Quotes)
The importance of the culture industry in the spiritual constitution of the masses is no dispensation for reflection on its objective legitimation, its essential being, least of all by a science which thinks itself pragmatic (Us Quotes)
There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence (Us Quotes)
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure (Us Quotes)