"Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition."

"The end of obedience is protection."

"And consequently, the knowledge of the consequences of words, is called SCIENCE. And though a man should now and then have the good fortune to get any thing by conjecture, without reasoning; yet becau…"

"And therefore, as long as a man is in the condition of mere nature, (which is a condition of war,) as long as he has not bound himself by covenant to the contrary, every man has a right to every thing…"

"For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a wa…"