 | Nathan Christ Schaeffer - 1900 - 360 ページ
...to the letter. HERBERT SPENCER. Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. JOHNSON. For words are wise men's counters, — they do but reckon by them, — but they are the money of fools. HOBBES. It is only by the help of language (or some other equivalent set of signs) that we can think... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - 632 ページ
...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...the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever. ' Subject to names is whatsoever can enter into, or be considered... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 ページ
...in these days New Lords may give us new laws. Contented Man't 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 f. Chap. ic. No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1903 - 444 ページ
...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. Subject to names, is whatsoever can enter... | |
 | John Dunn - 1979 - 156 ページ
...told all this, is at first sight to learn little more than words. And words, as Thomas Hobbes said, 'are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools'. 2 Democratic theory is the moral Esperanto of the present nation-state system, the language in which... | |
 | D. J. van Alkemade - 1980 - 412 ページ
...philo6. Cf. my "Hobbes'Calculus of Words", in Statistical Methods in Linguistics 6, l970, sophers, PAV.] counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are...value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas..." The seventeenth century witnessed the victory of the rationalist philosophy. Spinoza... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1986 - 428 ページ
...also conventional signs, representations of reality that are not to be confused with reality: "For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools."" Elsewhere Hobbes displayed his Aristotelian inheritance. In De corpore (ca. 1642) he defines communication... | |
 | Peter Burke, Roy Porter - 1987 - 236 ページ
...idols of the market place, tribe, cave and theatre. 'Words are wise men's counters,' pronounced Hobbes, 'they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools', a view echoed by the infant Royal Society's motto: nullius in verba, 'on the word [authority] of no-one'.... | |
 | Michael E. Levin - 1987 - 356 ページ
...369. 57. Berry man. pp. 112-13. 58. Ibid.. p. 111. 59. Stiehm. p. 55. 60. Ibid. .p. 57. 12 Language Words are wise men's counters. they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools. —Thomas Hobbcs Of all feminist initiatives. the attempt to alter language is the most apt to provoke... | |
 | Julie Stone Peters - 1990 - 312 ページ
...definitions cannot alter the fact that words are merely a form of currency, with no intrinsic value: "For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon...money of fools, that value them by the authority of ... [any] doctor whatsoever, if but a man."17 The "if but a man" seems appended, a way of countering... | |
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For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man. 
