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To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad. - Thomas Hobbes
" "To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
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Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, whose 1651 book Leviathan established the agenda for nearly all subsequent Western political philosophy.
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Thomas Hobbes of Malflutry
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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.
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