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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
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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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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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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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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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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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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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Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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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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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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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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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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