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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 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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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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God is a thing that thinks.
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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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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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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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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
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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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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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