“ 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: Fo… Thomas Hobbes
“ 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 ‘body’ and that whic… Thomas Hobbes
“ For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy, or kingdom of darkness, may be compared no… Thomas Hobbes
“ And because the condition of man . . . is a condition of war of every one against every one, in which case every one is governed by his own reason, and there is nothing he can make use of that may not… Thomas Hobbes
“ 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. Thomas Hobbes