Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics)
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2009-02-15
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Retrieved
- Mar 29, 2011
- ISBN
- 9780199537
- EAN
- 9780199537280
4 memes from this reference
Words are Money of Fools, but Nature Does Not Lie
For between true Science, and erroneous Doctrines, Ignorance is in the middle. Naturall sense and imagination, are not subject to absurdity. Nature it selfe cannot erre: and as men abound in copiousnesses of language; so they become more wise, or more mad than ordinary. Nor is it possible without Letters for any man…
There is a Lust of the Mind...
There is a lust of the mind that, by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, far exceedeth the short vehemence of carnal pleasure
Fear of Things Invisible
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
Civilization is a Work of Art, Creating an Artificial Man
NATURE (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal. For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within, why may we not say that all automata (engines…