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Leviathan

CHAPTER VI
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So also do the Greek words for the same, which are orme and aphorme.

For nature it selfe does often presse upon men those truths, which afterwards, when they look for somewhat beyond Nature, they stumble at.

For the Schooles find in meere Appetite to go, or move, no actuall Motion at all: but because some Motion they must acknowledge, they call it Metaphoricall Motion; which is but an absurd speech; for though Words may be called metaphoricall; Bodies, and Motions cannot.
That which men Desire, they are also sayd to LOVE; and to HATE those things, for which they have Aversion.

So that Desire, and Love, are the same thing; save that by Desire, we alwayes signifie the Absence of the object; by Love, most commonly the Presence of the same.

So also by Aversion, we signifie the Absence; and by Hate, the Presence of the Object.
Of Appetites, and Aversions, some are born with men; as Appetite of food, Appetite of excretion, and exoneration, (which may also and more properly be called Aversions, from somewhat they feele in their Bodies;) and some other Appetites, not many.


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