For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Knowledge is power.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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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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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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