Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
Thomas HobbesA wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas HobbesTo say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.
Thomas HobbesOpinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
Thomas Hobbes