A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
THOMAS HOBBESThe secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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 one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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