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Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for and to place it accordingly or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs the more he struggles, the more belimed.
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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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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.
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For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
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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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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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The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.
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Nature itself cannot err
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
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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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A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
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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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