Thomas Hobbes

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

"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."

"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."

"The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns."

"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind."

"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."

"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."

"Words are the money of fools."