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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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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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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
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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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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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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 more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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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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[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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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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