Thomas Hobbes Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: April 5, 1588 - December 4, 1679
Birthday: April 5
Death: December 4
And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .
source: Thomas Hobbes (1953). “Leviathan”, Peter Smith Pub Inc
topic: Taken, Men, Mad, Vapor, Delphi, Gentiles
