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Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
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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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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.
Thomas Hobbes
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.
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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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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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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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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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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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That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
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If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
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So that every Crime is a sinne but not every sinne a Crime.
Thomas Hobbes
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.
Thomas Hobbes
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.
Thomas Hobbes
I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
Thomas Hobbes
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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