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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.
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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Desire is the very essence of man
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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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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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