And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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