The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBESTrue’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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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.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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