Thomas Hobbes

“כל הכרה מהווה זיכרון.”

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

“In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.”

“All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.”

“There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.”

“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.”

“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”

“Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”

“Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.”

“The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.”

“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.”

“They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.”

“The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.”

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

“The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.”

“The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.”

“The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.”

“War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.”

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

“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy, or kingdom of darkness, may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies; that is, to the old wives' fables in England concerning ghosts and spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power.”