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  • Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

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

  • 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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    Perseverance   Passion   Animal  
    Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

  • Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

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    Men  
    Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.122, Xist Publishing

  • Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

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    Passion   Men   Animal  
    Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.119
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Thomas Hobbes

  • Born: April 5, 1588
  • Died: December 4, 1679
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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