Thomas Hobbes Atheism Quotations

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.