The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.