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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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 errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.
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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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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
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Covenants without swords are but words.
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To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity Reason is the pace Encrease of Science, the way and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
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For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
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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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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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If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
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Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.
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For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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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. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.
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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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A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.
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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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The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
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