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• If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

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  Facts, Conflict, Theory

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• After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

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  Real, Discovery, Mind

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “How to Improve Your Mind”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

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  Philosophical, Causes, Pantheism

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.26, Commodius Vicus

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• The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Men, Mind

  Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg, November 1675.

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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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  Body, Way, Anticipation

  Baruch Spinoza (1992). “Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters”, p.114, Hackett Publishing

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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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  Men, Long, Determined

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• Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

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  Truth, Knowledge, Errors

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• The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

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  Gratitude, Thinking, Quality

  Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

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• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Definition 13: Explanation), 1677.

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• I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

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  Mind, Saws, All Things

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• Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

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  Law, Broken, Laughing

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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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  Memories, Forget, Forget It

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• Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

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  Blessed, Thinking, Weak

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• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

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  Philosophical, Self, Ideas

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Part III : On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions, Prop. 51: Note, 1677.

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• Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

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  Flow, Causes, Effects

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• Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

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  Men, Law, And Love

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• All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

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  Inspirational, Perfection, Excellence

  Ethics pt. 5 (1677) (translation by Edwin Curley)

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

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  Hope, Fear, Cancer

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.150, Commodius Vicus

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• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

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  Philosophical, Taken, Wish

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• We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

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  Communication, Sadness, Joy

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• Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

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  Lust, Delight, Rewards

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• In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

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  Practical Life, Practicals, Compelled

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “Letters to Friend and Foe”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Whatsoever is, is in God.

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  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.22, Baruch Spinoza

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• A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

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  Miracle, Causes, Narrators

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• Everyone has as much right as he has might.

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  Might

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