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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
Bible Translator
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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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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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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[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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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's but under nature everything belongs to all.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Desire is the very essence of man
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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