Man gives indifferent names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions; as they that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the ca…

And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power ot…

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.The cause whereof …

But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say that they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politician stays unch…

Ever since I heard you is got a million dollars I notice you is fraught with perspicacity.