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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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The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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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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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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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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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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