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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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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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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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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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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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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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 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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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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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's but under nature everything belongs to all.
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