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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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 do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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In the mind there is no absolute or free will but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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God is a thing that thinks.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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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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[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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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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