The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Interpretation
Everyone has private thoughts that encompass a wide range of subjects, free from judgment.
This quote by Thomas Hobbes suggests that a person's internal thoughts can traverse across numerous topics, whether they are sacred or sinful, serious or trivial. It highlights the complexity of human thought, emphasizing that our minds are capable of contemplating all facets of existence without the constraints of societal judgment or moral accountability.
In practice
In a philosophical debate about the nature of human thought.
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.
Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of Nature, with its astonishing details-the blade of grass, the Conus cedonulli, or the resonance levels of the carbon atom-also suggest a God of purpose and a God of design. And I think my belief makes me no less a scientist.
Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR
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