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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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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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