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The logo is inspired in the former Wikipedia's logo, when it was Nupedia auxiliar project <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_logo_Nupedia.jpg" title="File:Wiki logo Nupedia.jpg">(see)</a>. It's made by superposing a Thomas Hobbes's phrase on a circle, using fisheye effect to simulate a sphere. The phrase is a quote from "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, (Part I, Chapter VI), which says:
"man is distinguished, not only by his reason, but by this singular passion from other animals, which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure".
The quote is part of a more complete phrase, the following one:
"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.
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| current | 08:41, 12 January 2017 | | 135 × 133 (4 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | The logo is inspired in the former Wikipedia's logo, when it was Nupedia auxiliar project <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_logo_Nupedia.jpg" title="File:Wiki logo Nupedia.jpg">(see)</a>. It's made by superposing a Thomas Hobbes's phrase on a circle, using fisheye effect to simulate a sphere. The phrase is a quote from "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, (Part I, Chapter VI), which says:<blockquote>"<i>man is distinguished, not only by his reason, but by this singular passion from other animals, which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure"</i>.</blockquote>The quote is part of a more complete phrase, the following one:<blockquote>"<i>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.</i> </blockquote> |
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