Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.
Thomas HobbesAnd therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.
Thomas HobbesAll men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
Thomas HobbesAppetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas Hobbes