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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Desire is the very essence of man
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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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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...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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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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All is One (Nature, God)
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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