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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.
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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
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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 greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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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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[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
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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.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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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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