True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
THOMAS HOBBESA man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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