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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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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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