Quote #10

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.

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  1. :Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another:
  2. Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
  3. :Understanding being nothing else, but conception caused by Speech.
  4. Hope For Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called HOPE. Despaire The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE.
  5. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotl…
  6. 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; bu…
  7. The condition of Man...is a condition of Warre of every one against every one.
  8. The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, prophane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame, or blame:

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