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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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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
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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 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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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.
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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.
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I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
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The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
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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.
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