Thomas Hobbes

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.

As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.

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

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

For such is the nature of man, 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: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance.

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is __ody_ and that which is not __ody_ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.