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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
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I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it.
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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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This I know God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome for he is still an enemy.
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another which is as much as to know it together.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
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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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The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .
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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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