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That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.
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If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
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The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .
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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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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
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The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.
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In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and not by their mediocrity, nor by their being commended. For several men praise several customs, and, contrarily, what one calls vice, another calls virtue, as their present affections lead them.
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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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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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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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For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself
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Nature itself cannot err
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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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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
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The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath.
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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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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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