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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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 do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.
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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.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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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.
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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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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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