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Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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 can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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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.
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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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