A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
THOMAS HOBBESwhatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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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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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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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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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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