"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
Science
"The source of every crime is some defect of the understanding."
Knowledge
"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."
Education
"In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power."
Power
"The two sovereign remedies for all discontents are hope and sleep."
Hope
"Imagination is but the first operation of the two needy virtues called wonder and astonishment."
Imagination
"Every man is supposed a knave."
Politics
"The right to all things is given to everyone by nature."
Nature
"We arrive at truth, not by the reason of one man, but by the united judgment of many."
Truth
"Whosoever looketh into himself, and considereth what he doth when he does think, hope, fear, &c., and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know what are the thoughts and passions of all other men."
"A person is a man considered as a word or sound carrying meaning."
Philosophy
"Pleasure and pain are the consequence of action."
Happiness
"The true and only way to safety lies in the establishment of a civil power."
Peace
"There is no knowledge of yesterday or tomorrow, but only of what is eternally."
Time
"The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power."
Freedom
"Prudence is the virtue proper to a person."
Wisdom
"The end of knowledge is power."
Knowledge
"First, I place for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power."
Motivation
"Enmity is as short-lived as a summer fly."
Time
"The greatest and principal use of rhetoric is in persuasion."
Leadership
"By art is created that great leviathan, called the commonwealth."
Politics
"Pacts without swords are but words."
Truth
"Fear of powers invisible is the natural seed of religion."
Faith
"All truth is not to be spoken in all circumstances."
Wisdom
"The passions of men are not naturally inclined to peace, but to the contrary."
War
"Men naturally love liberty and dominion over others."
Power
"Pride is the mother of all other vices."
"Anger is a brief madness."
"In the race of human life, hope is a sounder racer than despair."
Inspiration
"The mind of a man is a mirror of the world."
Philosophy