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• Knowledge is power. -- Thomas Hobbe
• No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
  -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- The Leviathan, Part i, Chap. xviii...
• Leisure is the mother of philosophy. -- Thomas Hobbe
• The world is governed by opinion. -- Thomas Hobbe
• Every man is apt to form his notions of things difficult to be apprehended, or less familiar, from their analogy to things which are more familiar.
  Thus, if a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subjec...
• Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. -- Albert Camu
• Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughte
  is he not the only one that deserves to be laughed at? -- Grenville...
• I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet devised by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...