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• The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

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  Bible, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath.

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  Sight, Add, Covenant

  Thomas Hobbes (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.130

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• La causa del Sentido, es el Cuerpo Externo, u Objeto, que presiona el órgano propio de cada Sentido, ya sea inmediatamente, como en el Gusto y el Tacto; o mediatamente, como en la Vista, el Oído y el Olfato: cuya presión, por la mediación de los Nervios, y otras cuerdas, y membranas del cuerpo, continuadas hacia el interior del Cerebro, y el Corazón, causan allí una resistencia, o contra-presión, o esfuerzo del corazón, para liberarse: este esfuerzo porque hacia el Exterior, parece ser alguna materia exterior.

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  Nature, Heart, Self

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

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  Bible, God, Scripture

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.433

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• I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it.

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  God, Mean, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (1840). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.349

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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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  Sight, Names, Speech

  Thomas Hobbes (2012). “Leviathan”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Pero los que sostienen que Dios es [una sustancia incorpórea] hacen absolutamente que Dios no sea nada en absoluto. ¿Pero cómo? ¿Eran ateos? No. Porque aunque por ignorancia de las consecuencias decían lo que era equivalente al ateísmo, en sus corazones pensaban que Dios era una sustancia, de modo que este ateísmo por consecuencia es algo muy fácil en lo que pueden caer, incluso los hombres más piadosos de la Iglesia.

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  Atheist, Heart, Ignorance

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• To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.

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  Science, Men, Light

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.38, Powell Publications, LLC

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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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  Men, Political, May

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

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  Men, Train Of Thought, Next

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.47, Broadview Press

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• And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say in matterof faith, I shall abstain from saying it, excepting this point, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for my sins. As for other doctrines, I think it unlawful, if the church define them, for any member of the church to contradict them.

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  Jesus, Son, Thinking

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1840). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.367

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• Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

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  Passion, Flames, Understanding

  Thomas Hobbes (2013). “Leviathan”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.

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  Hombres, Dos, Juntos

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.78, Broadview Press

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• A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.

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  Covenant, Force

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The First Part, Chapter 14, 1651.

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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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  Fall, Men, Principles

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.114

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• And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.

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  Science, Men, Definitions

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.109

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• Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time

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  Facts, Know How, Another Time

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.28, Hackett Publishing

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• Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

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  Men, Competition, Praise

  Thomas Hobbes (2002). “Leviathan”, p.76, Broadview Press

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• The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.

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  God, Men, Together

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

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  Men, Thinking, Prudent

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.50, Broadview Press

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• And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.

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  Men, Empires, Dominion

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.566, Broadview Press

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• Can it then be doubted, but that God, who is infinitely fine Spirit, and withal intelligent, can make and change all species and kind of body as he pleaseth? But I dare not say, that this is the way by which God Almighty worketh, because it is past my apprehension: yet it serves very well to demonstrate, that the omnipotence of God implieth no contradiction.

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  God, Intelligent, Past

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.392, Broadview Press

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• [Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.

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  May, Causality, Causes

  Thomas Hobbes (1839). “Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition”, p.11

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• Y para el Discurso Incoherente, fue tomado entre los Gentiles como un tipo de Profecía, porque los Profetas de sus Oráculos, intoxicados con un espíritu, o vapor de la cueva del Oráculo Pitónico en Delfos, estaban por un tiempo realmente locos, y hablaban como locos; de cuyas palabras sueltas se podía hacer un sentido para encajar cualquier evento, de tal manera, como se dice que todos los cuerpos están hechos de Materia prima .

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  Taken, Men, Mad

  Thomas Hobbes (1953). “Leviathan”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.

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  Art, Science, Skills

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.117, Powell Publications, LLC

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