The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. |
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. |
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. |
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. |
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. |
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. |
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only |
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. |
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? |
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? |
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame |
The world is governed by opinion. |
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. |
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion |
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. |