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To: little jeremiah
You need to check out some of his quotes as well then.
@Thomas Hobbes quotes
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

I lust greatly, and daily.

94 posted on 02/16/2012 8:17:39 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

Well, I’d say there are two kinds of curiosity - “idle” curiosity, sort of like scratching an itch, and then the thirst for truth, which is more akin to quenching a need of the deeper being.


95 posted on 02/16/2012 8:53:01 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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