Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
knowledge
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.
understanding speech conception
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
laughter philosophical passion
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
nasty life-is
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
passion atheism different
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.
atheist atheism pills
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
atheism facts ends
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
propositions
Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.
crime
So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.
taken men mad
And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .
spring moving watches
For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?
everyday produce new-knowledge
Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.
passion madness mere
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
atheist ignorance heart
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.