Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Lust

Quotes about: Lust

• Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life Lesson, Philosophical, Lust

  "Very Happy to Be Here!". Book by Edward Pavlik, p.137, December 1, 2006.

• The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Past, Lust, Mind

• 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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Perseverance, Passion, Animal

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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