The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBESIt is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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 prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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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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Life is 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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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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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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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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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