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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.

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Taken, Ignorance, Mean

"The Bold Truth" by Lazima Tutashinda, (p. 266), January 1, 1997.

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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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God, Order, Different

Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.49, Baruch Spinoza

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In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows.
Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

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Life, Powerful, Men

Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.226, Commodius Vicus

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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

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Men, Made, Convenience

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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

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Men, Overcoming, Faces

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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

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Men, Fancy, Fame

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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

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Life, Hate, Thinking

Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.22, Open Road Media

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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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Philosophical, Pantheism, Without God

Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.18, Commodius Vicus

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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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Men, Envy, Human Nature

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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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Pain, Love Is, Ideas

Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.22, Open Road Media

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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

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No Fear, No Hope

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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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Intellect

Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.57, Hackett Publishing

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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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Men, Law, Mind

"Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

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Ideas, Effort, Mind

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Desire is the very essence of man

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Philosophy, Men, Essence

Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate
them.

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Men, Law, Broken

"Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

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Past, Mind, Body

Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.418, Baruch Spinoza

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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

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Men, Experience, Would Be

"Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, 1677.

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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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Mind, Weakness, Ethics

"Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrat" by Baruch Spinoza, part III: "On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions", 1677.

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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

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Order, Fixed, Preserves

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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

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Suffering, Emotion, Form

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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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Evil, Causes, Omen

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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.

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Love, Ideas, Joy

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Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

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Life, Hatred, Acting

Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.27, Open Road Media

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The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

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Faith, Individuality, Religion

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Born: November 24, 1632
Died: February 21, 1677
Occupation: Philosopher
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