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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. – Thomas Hobbes

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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

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Death
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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. – Thomas Hobbes

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power
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. – Albert Camus

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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with ones own opinion. – Ambrose Bierce

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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. – Archibald MacLeish

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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. – Agnes Repplier

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A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isnt healthy either. So one has to work it out according to ones own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things. – Clyde Tombaugh

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