Thomas Hobbes : (4)

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

" The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. " - Thomas Hobbes

" All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ‘Facts’. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. " - Thomas Hobbes

" Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. " - Thomas Hobbes