Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.
Thomas HobbesBut they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.
Thomas HobbesFear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes