Tag: Baruch Spinoza
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Baruch Spinoza
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
Baruch Spinoza
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza