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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
Bible Translator
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Amsterdam
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Benedict de Spinoza
Baruch de Espinosa
Barukh Shpinozah
Benoît de Spinoza
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Barukh Spinoza
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Baruch d' Espinoza
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Benedictus De Spinoza
Benedictus Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Benedictus de Spinoza
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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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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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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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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