whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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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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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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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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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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