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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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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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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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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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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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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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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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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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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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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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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.
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