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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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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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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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