A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
THOMAS HOBBESFor to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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