The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
