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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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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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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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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
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The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.
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Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]
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All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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