"So that imagination and memory are but one thing, which for diverse considerations hath diverse names."
—Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
(Chap ii. Of Imagination [3])
"The invention of printing, though ingenious, compared with the invention of letters is no great matter."
—Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
(Chap iv. Of Speech [1])
"For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man."
—Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
(Chap iv. Of Speech [13])
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