For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
THOMAS HOBBESConcerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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 a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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