Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”

“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.”

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

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”

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

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

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

“Hell is truth seen too late.”

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