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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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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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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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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.
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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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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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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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[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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as 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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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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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
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