Baruch Spinoza Quotes

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Baruch Spinoza

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : November 24, 1632

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.

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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

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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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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

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We feel and know that we are eternal.

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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

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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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