The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESTrue’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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A great leap in the dark.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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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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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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