It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. Read Summary
Words are the money of fools. Read Summary
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. Read Summary
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. Read Summary
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. Read Summary
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. Read Summary
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Read Summary