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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Born: Apr 5, 1588
Died: Dec 4, 1679

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Minds, Horror, Beasts, Brute, Facts, Generous, Domain, Intellectual, Commonly

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Alan Watts, Bernard Williams, Francis Bacon, George Henry Lewes, Herbert Spencer, Jeremy Bentham, John Locke, John Stuart Mill

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