Author of quotes: Thomas Hobbes

Theory of law and injustice constantly challenged as a feather, and a sword, meanwhile as the doctrine about lines and figures is not subject to dispute for the truth about these latter do not hurt the interests of the people, without neither their ambition nor to their benefit or desire.

Everything that moves, not only moving, but will move, the movement cannot be imagined without imagining the past and the future.

While men live without a common power, holding them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and it is in a state of war of all against all.

Natural beginning of speech - the result of arbitrariness of people.

Only in the state there is a universal scale to measure virtues and vices. And the scale can only serve the laws of each state.

I have no doubt that if the truth that three angles of a triangle are equal to two angles of a square, contrary to someone's right to power or the interests of those who already have power, then... the teaching of geometry would be if not disputed, then supplanted by burning all books on geometry.

Typically, lust is denoted by the word Love, meaning it is uncertain attraction of one sex to another, as natural as hunger.

For the wise people's words are only the brand which they use to account for the fools they are full of coins, sanctified by the authority of any Aristotle, or Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other scholar.

Belief in yourself there is something beautiful because it is a sign of one who understands their abilities.