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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
~ Thomas Hobbes
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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
~ Thomas Hobbes
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
~ Thomas Hobbes
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
~ Thomas Hobbes
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
~ Thomas Hobbes
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Words are the money of fools.
~ Thomas Hobbes
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
~ Thomas Hobbes
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Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
~ Thomas Nagel
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Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
~ Thomas Nagel
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Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
~ Thomas Nagel
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There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
~ Thomas Nagel
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
~ Thomas Reid
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And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.
~ Thomas Reid
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But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
~ Thomas Reid
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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
~ Thomas Reid
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It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
~ Thomas Reid
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
~ Thomas Reid
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
~ Thomas Reid
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The world is a living image of God.
~ Tommaso Campanella
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
~ Samuel Alexander
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