Baruch Spinoza
Quotations
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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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“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.” -Baruch Spinoza
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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.” -Baruch Spinoza
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“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.” -Baruch Spinoza
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“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.” -Baruch Spinoza
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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.” -Baruch Spinoza
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“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.” -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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“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
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“Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.” -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.” -Baruch Spinoza
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“Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.” -Baruch Spinoza
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“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” -Baruch Spinoza
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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” -Baruch Spinoza
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“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.” -Baruch Spinoza
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“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.” -Baruch Spinoza
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“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.” -Baruch Spinoza
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“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.” -Baruch Spinoza
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“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.” -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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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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