biboergosum

Hello and welcome to my blog. I have finally set it up, something that I was thinking of for ever. You will find thoughts, comments, droppings of wisdom as against pearls, words of drunkenness and more. I do not care for being politically correct. You might find things you always wanted to say but did not or find things that you find so awful that you might want to punch me.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

A few quotes from 'Leviathan'

I was reading some thing about Thomas Hobbes the other day and I came across some quotes from 'Leviathan'. I have reproduced the ones I liked best. "Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous." "...in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death." "Man gives indifferent names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions; as they that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."

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