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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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God is a thing that thinks.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]
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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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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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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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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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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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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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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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