“From the same it proceedeth, that men gives different 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, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler”

— Thomas Hobbes , book Leviathan

The First Part, Chapter 11, p. 50
Leviathan (1651)

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English philosopher, born 1588 1588–1679

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