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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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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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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
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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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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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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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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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