#mo

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#because #characters #even #kind #leeway

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#cage #claws #climbed #face #her

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#almost #answer #anything #done #earth

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#brute #called #commonly #domain #facts

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#believe #eloquent #hardly #learned #many

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#awe #called #common #conditions #during

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#mother #philosophy

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. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#desire #fear #here #itself #life

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#day #death #die #embodied #grow

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

#challenge #elements #eye #grow #i