Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

- Thomas Hobbes

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

- Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor …

- Thomas Hobbes

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

- Thomas Hobbes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

- Thomas Hobbes

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government…

- Thomas Hobbes

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

- Thomas Hobbes

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

- Thomas Hobbes

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

- Thomas Hobbes