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Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

Thomas Hobbes
Truth, Philosophy, Too Late
Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."

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

Thomas Hobbes
Truth, True And False, Speech
Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 4 (1651)

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)

Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.

Thomas Hobbes
Truth, Struggle, Men
Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

Thomas Hobbes
Truth, Knowledge, Math
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

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