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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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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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Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]
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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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All is One (Nature, God)
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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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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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