Man gives indifferent names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions; as they that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.— Hobbes, Thomas: from Leviathan
in French: Ceux qui approuvent une opinion l’appellent opinion ; mais ceux qui la désapprouvent l’appellent hérésie.
| Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679),
in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. |
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