 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - Страниц: 632
...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 by them : but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, a Thomas Aquinas, or any other doctor whatsoever.... | |
 | 1903 - Страниц: 1186
...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... | |
 | William Turner - 1903 - Страниц: 692
...announcement of such a decision is what we call a definition. In this connection he remarks that " Words are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them : but they are the money of fools." 3 1 De Cive (1642) was translated in 1651 under the title Philosophical Rudiments concerning Government... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - Страниц: 434
...and was a friend of Warburton. Words are the money, etc. Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I., ch. iv. : " For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools." SAMUEL JOHNSON 113. the poems of Homer. Cf. Johnson's remark recorded in the Diary of the Right Hon.... | |
 | John Dunn - 1979 - Страниц: 156
...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 - Страниц: 412
...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 the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas..." The seventeenth century... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1986 - Страниц: 428
...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 - Страниц: 236
...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 - Страниц: 356
...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 - Страниц: 312
...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 by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of ... [any] doctor whatsoever, if but a man."17 The "if but a man"... | |
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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. 
