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Instrument Maker Inspirational Quotes (145)

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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
Baruch Spinoza
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
Baruch Spinoza
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
Baruch Spinoza
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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
Baruch Spinoza
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
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We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.
Christiaan Huygens
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All is One (Nature, God)
Baruch Spinoza
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Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].
Baruch Spinoza
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
Baruch Spinoza
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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
Baruch Spinoza
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
Baruch Spinoza
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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
Baruch Spinoza
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A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.
Baruch Spinoza
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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
Baruch Spinoza
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Desire is the very essence of man
Baruch Spinoza
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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
Baruch Spinoza
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza
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In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
Baruch Spinoza
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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
Baruch Spinoza
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza
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Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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