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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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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 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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Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
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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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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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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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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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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
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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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I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
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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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And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
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