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Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
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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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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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Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
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The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
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As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.
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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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And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
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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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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
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It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.
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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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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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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.
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