...in these days New Lords may give us new laws. Contented Man's Morrice. THOMAS HOBBES. 1588-1679. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money Of fools. The Leviathan. Part \. Ch. 4. And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short Ibid. Ch....

...currency. So Hobbes, "The Leviathan," Pt. 1. c. 4 : — "For words are wise men's counters — thej do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." THE RESULT OF KNOWING HOW то BRING MODERATE ABILITIES INTO PLAY. (clxii.) L'art de savoir bien mettre...

...in limetwigs, — the more he struggles, the more beliined. Words are wise men's counters, — thej do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools,...Cicero, .a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever." Fuller quaintly suggests that the reason why the Schoolmen wrote in so bald a style was, "that the...

...wise, or, unless his memory be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs, excellently foolish. For words are wise men's counters — they do but reckon...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man. JAMES HARRINGTON. JAMES HARRINGTON (1611-1677)...

...wise, or, unless his memory be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs, excellently foolish. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.—Leviathan. 7. Liberty. THE liberty of...

...tongue or pen, The saddest are these : "It might have been ! " JG Wn ITT IER, Maitd Muller. — For WORDS are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools. T. HORRES, The Lenathan, pt. L ch. 4. — Good WORDS are better than bad strokes. SHAKESPERE, Jiiiivt...

...representing anything not subject to sense." We might quote against him his own pithy aphorism, — " Words are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them ; but they are the mouoy of fools." %f CHAPTER IX. VT BERKELEYANISM. PERHAPS the only fruitful and important truth in...

...said to understand it ; understanding being nothing else but conception formed by speech.' . . . ' Words are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools.' 1 Hobbes is thoroughly nominalistic. Reasoning to him is nothing more than computation of these signs,...

...it. There is no necessity to muddle it with unmeaning words or metaphors. " Words," said Hobbes, " are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools." Such then being our estimate of the ontology of Kant, what has he done to warrant our regarding him...

...speech, and especially the art of strict definition of words, is the first necessity of Philosophy. " For words are wise men's counters, — they do but " reckon by them; but they arc the money of fools, that value " them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas....