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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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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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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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So that every Crime is a sinne but not every sinne a Crime.
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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
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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 right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?
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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
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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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Scientia potentia est, sed parva quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.
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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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The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.
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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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To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
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Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.
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