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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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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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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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Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]
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