ThomasHobbes
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@ young man, life *was* short in the State of Nature, but Leviathan (the State) lifts us out of that nasty, brutish existence.
5:26 PM Aug 27th
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in reply to moneyries
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The laws of man ought to offer so much forgiveness to repentant transgressors.
8:52 PM Aug 22nd
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But sinners can repent, so it's a pretty sweet deal all things considered.
8:49 PM Aug 22nd
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Heaven is shut to none but to sinners; that is to say, to the disobedient, or transgressors of the law.
8:46 PM Aug 22nd
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Men commanded in the name of God know not whether the it be from God, or if he that commands abuses God's name for some private ends.
10:21 AM Aug 21st
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The most frequent pretext of sedition and civil war in Christian Commonwealths proceeds from the difficulty of obeying at once God and man.
10:17 AM Aug 21st
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The use of Words is to register to ourselves, and make manifest to others, the Thoughts and Conceptions of our Minds (hence the tweeting).
6:29 AM Jun 4th
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140 characters, being a Daunting Constraint, prompts vastly more brusque Concision than earlier Works. Wit's Razor, trimmeth mine verbiage!
1:00 AM Apr 19th
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@ Leviathan is going to be *huge*, trust me on this one. Like a Godzilla that also guarantees contract enforceability. Bonus!
12:49 AM Apr 19th
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in reply to ThorsteinVeblen
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Internal faith is in its own nature invisible & consequently exempted from all human jurisdiction.
8:48 PM Mar 21st
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Profession with the tongue is but an external thing, and no more then any other gesture whereby we signify our obedience.
5:20 PM Mar 15th
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The scriptures, in all places where they are law, are made law by the authority
of the commonwealth & consequently a part of the civil law.
3:26 PM Mar 5th
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From the first institution of God's kingdom to the captivity,
the supremacy of religion was in the same hand with that of
civil sovereignty.
3:06 PM Mar 5th
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Men have no pleasure (but on the contrary a great deal of grief) in keeping company, where there is no power able to over-awe them all.
5:22 PM Feb 20th
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@ thx for thine shout-out!
3:01 PM Feb 20th
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Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand and other men's at a distance.
6:06 PM Feb 18th
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The difference btw men is not so considerable that one man can claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
10:22 PM Feb 15th
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Want of -- that is, ignorance of causes -- disposes, or rather constrains a man to rely on the advice and authority of others.
4:09 PM Feb 5th
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Reputation of power *is* power, because it draws with it the adherence of those that need protection.
3:38 PM Jan 29th
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The Invention of Printing, though ingenious, compared with the
invention of Letters, is no great matter.
3:10 PM Dec 27th, 2008
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- Name Thomas Hobbes
- Location iPhone: 43.672134,-79.366470
- Web http://en.wikiped...
- Bio Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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