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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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I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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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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And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
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Nature itself cannot err
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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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From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion but has only agreater tincture of choler
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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
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So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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The law is the public conscience.
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The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
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How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
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Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
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As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance to the Sight, Light and Color to the Ear, Sound to the Nostril, Odor, &c.
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For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
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