Thomas Hobbes

"Knowledge is power, and power is the ability to impose one's will upon the world."

"Fear and I were born twins."

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living, though Socrates said it first, I say it with greater understanding."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice."

"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."

"Covenants, without the sword, are but words."

"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force."

"The greatest good is peace, and the greatest evil is war."

"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war."

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

"The arrows of the mighty are broken, but those who stumble are armed with strength."

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

"Hell is truth seen too late."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"The sovereign must use the threat of punishment to maintain order."

"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them."

"Private reason must yield to public authority in matters of state."

"Imagination is nothing but decaying sense."

"A sudden glory is the passion which is the cause of laughter."

"Without security, there can be no liberty, no happiness, no virtue."

"The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them."

"In the state of nature, life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

"To understand God's thoughts, we must study mathematics, for they are the thoughts of God."

"The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek peace and follow it."

"Time is the image of eternity."

"A man's own desire is his own law."

"Justice is the making of an inequality equal."

"Competition of riches, honour, command, or other power inclines to contention, enmity, and war."

"The universe is corporeal; all that exists is bodies."

"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."