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.

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.

Love is when Looking at a glance at youI found laughter in my eyes, Thoughts turns into jewels Where luster of your aura dwells

... the scarlet thread, the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began...

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.

The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the being.

No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

Earning money has a way of increasing financial intelligence quickly.

Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.