Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
Interpretation
Our thoughts serve as guides to help us achieve our desires.
In this quote, Thomas Hobbes likens thoughts to scouts and spies that explore and navigate towards our desires. It suggests that our mental processes are essential in identifying and pursuing what we truly want, as they assess and determine the best paths to achieve those desires.
In practice
Motivational talks about the power of positive thinking.
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.
And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: βA man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.β Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.
Well now everything dies baby that's a fact_x000D_ But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.
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