Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Interpretation
Curiosity drives the quest for knowledge and understanding.
This quote by Thomas Hobbes highlights the insatiable nature of human curiosity, suggesting that it is as powerful and compelling as a lustful desire. It implies that our thirst for knowledge and truth is an integral aspect of our mental existence, motivating us to explore, learn, and understand the world around us.
In practice
In a motivational speech about lifelong learning.
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
In dwelling, live close to the ground._x000D_ _x000D_ In thinking, keep to the simple._x000D_ _x000D_ In conflict, be fair and generous._x000D_ _x000D_ In governing, don't try to control._x000D_ _x000D_ In work, do what you enjoy._x000D_ _x000D_ In family life, be completely present.
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
I know why the caged bird sings.
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.
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