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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
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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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Desire is the very essence of man
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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 nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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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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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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...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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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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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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