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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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 have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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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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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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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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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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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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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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