Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

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• Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.

  

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• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

  

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• Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

  

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• Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Philosophers
  • Heresy
  • Private Opinion