Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Desire
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Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.
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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.
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Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.
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Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
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The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
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So that 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 cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
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Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
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If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
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Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
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... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.
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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.
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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