A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
THOMAS HOBBESIt is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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