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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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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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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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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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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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