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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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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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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
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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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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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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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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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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 have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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