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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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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
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Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
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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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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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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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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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