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| Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. | | Uncategorized | |
| Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion | | Ignorance; Opinions; Religion | |
| Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. | | Uncategorized | |
| Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. | | Consequences; Science | |
| Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. | | Uncategorized | |
| That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. | | Uncategorized | |
| The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. | | Uncategorized | |
| The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. | | Death and dying; Spirit | |
| The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. | | Uncategorized | |
| The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental. | | Uncategorized | |
| The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. | | Uncategorized | |
| The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only | | Uncategorized | |
| The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. | | Liberty; Nature | |
| The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? | | Existence; Science; Teachers and teaching | |
| The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame | | Men; Secrets; Thought | |
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| There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. | | Uncategorized | |
| They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion | | Heresy; Opinions | |
