Tag: Thomas Hobbes
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A man’s conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes
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Such truth, as opposeth no man’s profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Thomas Hobbes
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Thomas Hobbes
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Thomas Hobbes
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Words are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes
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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
Thomas Hobbes
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The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Thomas Hobbes
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Thomas Hobbes