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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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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
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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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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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 proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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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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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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