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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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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's but under nature everything belongs to all.
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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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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
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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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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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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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