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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
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For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth; and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member of the Body of Man.
Thomas Hobbes
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes -
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.
Thomas Hobbes -
But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.
Thomas Hobbes -
Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
Thomas Hobbes -
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes -
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Thomas Hobbes