A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Interpretation
Conscience and judgment are intertwined, and both can be flawed.
In this quote, Thomas Hobbes emphasizes the deep connection between a person's conscience and their judgment, suggesting that they are ultimately the same in function. He warns that both can be misguided or mistaken, leading to erroneous decisions and moral failures; thus, it is crucial to critically evaluate one's own beliefs and judgments to ensure they align with reason and truth.
In practice
In a philosophy class discussing moral relativism.
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men, and therefore the common good of humanity. Peace cannot be limited to a mere absence of war, the result of an ever precarious balance of forces. No, peace is something that is built up day after day, in the pursuit of an order intended by God, which implies a more perfect form of justice among men.
I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
Every Christian is important - important to God, to the world, and to the kingdom.
I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.
Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
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