Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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