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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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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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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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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
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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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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
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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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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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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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