I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceased only in death.

— Thomas Hobbes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

— Thomas Hobbes

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Thomas Hobbes

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

— Thomas Hobbes

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Thomas Hobbes

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent

— Thomas Hobbes

Such is the nature of men, 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.

— Thomas Hobbes