Thomas Hobbes

“I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.”

“The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

“The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”

“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”

“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death.”

“The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.”

“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.”

“Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.”

“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.”

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”

“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”

“Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.”

“Hell is truth seen too late.”

“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”

“Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.”