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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
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Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
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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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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
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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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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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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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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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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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