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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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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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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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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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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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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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...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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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In the mind there is no absolute or free will but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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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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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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