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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
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If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
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Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
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They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.
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The value or worth of a man is, as of all other things, his price that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
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Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.
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Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short
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For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.
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This is that law of the Gospel whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them.
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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.
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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
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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.
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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So that every Crime is a sinne but not every sinne a Crime.
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The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?
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