Thomas Hobbes on desire
Thomas Hobbes66 quotes“Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.”
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is an injustice to none of them.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Knowledge is power.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
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Condoleezza RiceCondoleezza Rice Misery doesn’t love just any company it desires the kind presence only loneliness feeds but that’s not love at all. – love doesn’t eat it bleeds.
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Martha GrahamMartha Graham Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.
Danielle LaPorteDanielle LaPorte Speak the truth. Affirm your desire. Declare your intentions. Recall your successes. Your psyche will believe you. Your body will feel you. Your Soul will thank you for the straight-up communication.
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