Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that have been given out for miracles, according as he shall see what benefits can accrue by men's belief, to those that pretend, or countenance them, and thereby conjecture whether they be miracles or lies.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Lying, Believe, Heart

• 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 searcheth hearts.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Lying, Heart, Character

  Thomas Hobbes (2013). “Leviathan”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

• True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 4 (1651)

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