That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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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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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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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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