 | John Gray - Philosophy - 1993 - 372 pages
...call Felicity; I mean the Felicity of this life, for there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life itself is...Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.1 For Hobbes, as his most distinguished twentieth-century interpreter,... | |
 | Andrew Milner - Social Science - 1993 - 156 pages
...subsequently acknowledged as 'culture', but rather the physical movement of the material human body: 'life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear' (Hobbes, 1960:39). The body and its desires and fears, to pursue pleasure and to avoid pain, thus provide... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Law - 1999 - 356 pages
...Leviathan, VI, an even more emphatically here-and-now coda: 'I mean the Felicity of this life. For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquillity of...Desire, nor without Fear, no more than without Sense.' 47 Galileo, in die first dialogue concerning local motions: Galileo (1564-1642) published two books... | |
 | Deal Wyatt Hudson - Philosophy - 1996 - 246 pages
...that is to say, continual prospering, is that men call FELICITY; I mean the felicity of this life. For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of...of felicity God hath ordained to them that devoutly honor him. a man shall no sooner know, than enjoy; being joyless, that now are as incomprehensible,... | |
 | H. James Jensen - English drama - 1996 - 478 pages
...that is to say, continual prospering, is that men call FELICITY; I mean the felicity of this life. For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of...more than without sense. What kind of felicity God has ordained to them that devoutly honor him, a man shall no sooner know, than enjoy; being joys, that... | |
 | Martin Hollis - Philosophy - 1996 - 300 pages
...that is to say, continual prospering, is that men call FELICITY; I mean the felicity of this life. For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of...desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. (Leviathan, eh. VII) This restless kind of felicity, whether due to human nature or to capitalism,... | |
 | Peter Brian Medawar - Science - 1996 - 260 pages
...place, and it was a spiritual death he had in mind when he said that to forsake the course is to die. There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here', he told us in Leviathan, 'because life itself is but motion and can never be without desire, or without... | |
 | Thomas P. Saine - History - 1997 - 388 pages
...call felicity; I mean the felicity of this life. For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is...of felicity God hath ordained to them that devoutly honor Him, a man shall no sooner know, than enjoy; being joys, that now are as incomprehensible, as... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 566 pages
...accepts the prospect of man's eternal fulfillment on faith, he is agnostic about its proper description: "What kind of felicity God hath ordained to them that...honour Him, a man shall no sooner know than enjoy," since it is "incomprehensible" to us now. Hobbes denies that there can be any "Summum Вопит" or... | |
 | David Walsh - Philosophy - 1997 - 408 pages
...Citizen, 53-54) The restlessness that characterizes this life is defined by the contrast with "the kind of felicity God hath ordained to them that devoutly honour him, [which] a man shall no sooner know than enjoy" (Leviathan, 130). In this life that eternal joy is "incomprehensible,"... | |
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For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense... 
