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Desire is the very essence of man
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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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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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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All is One (Nature, God)
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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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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