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I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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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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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
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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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The Present only has a being in Nature things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all the Future but a fiction of the mind.
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Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
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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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By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
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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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Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
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Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.
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The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
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