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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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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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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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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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