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.
THOMAS HOBBESA man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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