Thomas Hobbes

The instruction of the people dependeth wholly on the right teaching of divinity.

For seeing that the whole world is but motion, and there is nothing in it but motion, it is impossible that any part of it should remain always in the same state.

To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust.

The secret thoughts of a man are free.

For he that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind.

The greatest part of mankind, though they have the use of reason, yet they do not use it to that end.

Nature hath made men so equal, in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable.

The light of human minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity.

For if we could not see the motions of the stars, we should not know that there were any stars.

The end of all knowledge is action.

The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.