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Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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All is One (Nature, God)
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
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