For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
Leviathan, social contract
Found in 1 providers: grok
Cross Reference
1 source
"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present."
Controversial"The desires, and other passions of man, are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them."
Controversial"And therefore, what is good for one, is not good for all."
Strange & Unusual"Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition."
Strange & Unusual"Ignorance of causes, makes men apt to attribute every event to some immediate invisible agent."
Strange & Unusual