Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
nature heart self
The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.
passion men animal
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
political monarchs orators
To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
ambition passion political
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
done thyself
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.
secret body enough
For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself
mind pace ends
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
sick religion pills
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
leviathan opinion orthodox
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
authority-and-power desire leviathan
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
leviathan empires sitting
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
desire fit capacity
... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
knowledge done action
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
knowledge two remembrance
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.