| Quotes | |
| [People] only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it. | |
| the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. | |
| The condition of Man...is a condition of war of every one against every one. | |
| It's hard to tell if we're living in a tragedy or a farce | |
| some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death | |
| For this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end. | |
| The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, prophane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame, or blame… | |
| Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous | |
| the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity | |
| art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world | |
| Is it a right to remain ignorant? | |
| Denial springs eternal. | |
| We should remember that we are not guilty of one offense only but are buried in innumerable impurities | |
| Where there is no common power, there is no law | |
| astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known | |
| History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. | |
| [People] only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it. | |
| the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. | |
| The condition of Man...is a condition of war of every one against every one. | |
| It's hard to tell if we're living in a tragedy or a farce | |
| some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death | |
| For this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end. | |
| The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, prophane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame, or blame… | |
| Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous | |
| the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity | |
| art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world | |
| Is it a right to remain ignorant? | |
| Denial springs eternal. | |
| We should remember that we are not guilty of one offense only but are buried in innumerable impurities | |
| Where there is no common power, there is no law | |
| astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known | |
| History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. | |