True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
THOMAS HOBBESIt’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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