Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
understanding speech conception
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
liberty littles fruit
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
laughter philosophical passion
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
liberty nasty poor
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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.
truth struggle men
Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.
truth lying men
True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.
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.
work men would-be
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
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 .