Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. – Thomas Hobbes
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. – Thomas Hobbes
The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. – Thomas Hobbes
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. – Thomas Hobbes
If you dont die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. – Anne Lamott