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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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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
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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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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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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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