"True and False are attributes of speech, not……" — Thomas Hobbes
"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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Thomas Hobbes
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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes has 112 quotes on this site.
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Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
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There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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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…
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The world is governed by opinion.
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It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do,…
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be…
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love,…
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship,…
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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities,…
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I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount…
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the…
— John Calvin
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Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
— Graydon Carter
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
— Agatha Christie
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