The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBESThe light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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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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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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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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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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