Talk:Leviathan/The First Part

logo connection

Trivium: chapter 6 contains a quote which, when distorted by a fisheye lens effect, became one of the first Wikipedia logos:

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.

Given that w:en:Bomis was what funded Nupedia and then Wikipedia, and that was all about carnal pleasures, I find the quote contextually interesting. Arlo Barnes (talk) 00:28, 23 January 2019 (UTC)