Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

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

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

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.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

Nothing is as important as the biggest day in your life.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this!

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.