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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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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.
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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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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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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
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Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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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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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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