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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes
Fear, Religion, Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.110, Broadview Press

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

Thomas Hobbes
Sick, Religion, Pills
'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 3, ch. 32

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