Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Atheism
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No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
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Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.
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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.
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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.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.
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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.
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I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.
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