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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
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The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.
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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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Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases rashness, with mischance injustice with violence of enemies pride, with ruin cowardice, with oppression and rebellion, with slaughter.
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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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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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It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
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If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.
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To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
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The Present only has a being in Nature things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all the Future but a fiction of the mind.
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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
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The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
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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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Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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