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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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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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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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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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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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If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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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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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
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Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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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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