Quote#Science & Reason
It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length…
Quote byThomas Hobbes · 1588–1679
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 21 (See also: John Rawls).
English (original)
It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.
— Thomas Hobbes
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