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Biography - Thomas Hobbes:

English philosopher.
Born: 1588 - Died: 1679
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Le vrai et le faux sont des attributs du langage, non des choses. Et là où il n'y a pas de langage, il n'y a ni vérité ni fausseté.

German
Wahr und falsch sind Attribute der Sprache, nicht von Dingen. Und wo es keine Sprache gibt, da gibt es weder Wahrheit noch Falschheit.




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For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.




Quotes for: truth


Quotes

Quotes for: truth


To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Love truth, but pardon error.





Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





The language of truth is simple.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.











Quotes for: Language


Quotes

Quotes for: Language


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





The language of truth is simple.





Language is a source of misunderstanding.





Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





Language is the house of the truth of Being.





Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.











Quotes

Thomas Hobbes also said...


No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.





Leisure is the mother of philosophy.





It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.





The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.





Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.





Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.












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