Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Prophecy

Quotes about: Prophecy

• 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 .

  Thomas Hobbes

  Taken, Men, Mad

  Thomas Hobbes (1953). “Leviathan”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

• If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Dream, Taken, Simple

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.12, Powell Publications, LLC

• Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Events, Causes, Prophecy

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.580

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