"Whatsoever accidents Or qualities our sense make us……" — Thomas Hobbes
"Whatsoever accidents Or qualities our sense make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object."
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Thomas Hobbes
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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
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