Baruch Spinoza
Dutch philosopher
Lived from: 1632 - 1677
Category: Philosophers Country: 
Netherlands
Born: 24 november 1632 Died: 21 february 1677
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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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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
Tractatus Politicus― Baruch Spinoza -
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
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All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
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All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
On the Improvement of the Understanding― Baruch Spinoza -
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.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Ethics― Baruch Spinoza -
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
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Desire is the essence of a man.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Hatred which is entirely conquered by love passes into love, and love on that account is greater than if it had not been preceded by hatred.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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I have taken great care not to deride, bewail, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.
Tractatus Politicus Ch. 1― Baruch Spinoza -
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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