Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established social contract theory, the foundation of most later Western political philosophy...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 April 1588
men atheism purpose
The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.
passion atheism different
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.
atheism facts ends
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
men curiosity atheism
Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.
silence atheism argument
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.
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Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.
mind atheism superstitions
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
carnal continued curiosity delight desire generation knowledge lust perseverance short
Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.