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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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God is a thing that thinks.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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