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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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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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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
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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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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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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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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
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All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
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