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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.
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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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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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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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.
Baruch Spinoza
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
Baruch Spinoza
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
Baruch Spinoza
Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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Freedom is self-determination.
Baruch Spinoza
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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