Tag: Baruch Spinoza
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch Spinoza
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch Spinoza
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Baruch Spinoza
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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
Baruch Spinoza
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza