A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
THOMAS HOBBESNo arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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 Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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