#Baruch Spinoza

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that

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 If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that

Feb 02,2024

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Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

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 Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Nov 08,2023

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Very many controversies have arisen from the fact that men do not rightly explain their meaning, or do not rightly interpret

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 Very many controversies have arisen from the fact that men do not rightly explain their meaning, or do not rightly interpret

Feb 16,2023

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We know nothing to be certainly good or evil, save such things as really conduce to understanding, or such as are able to

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 We know nothing to be certainly good or evil, save such things as really conduce to understanding, or such as are able to

Jan 20,2023

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Everyone by nature desires that the rest of mankind should live according to his own individual disposition: when such a

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 Everyone by nature desires that the rest of mankind should live according to his own individual disposition: when such a

Dec 29,2022

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Those who are more skilled in railing at vice than in instilling virtue, and who break rather than strengthen men’

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 Those who are more skilled in railing at vice than in instilling virtue, and who break rather than strengthen men’

Feb 28,2022

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This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so

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 This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so

May 12,2021

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Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self.

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 Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self.

Apr 25,2021

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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but, under nature, everything belongs to all —

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 Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but, under nature, everything belongs to all —

Apr 10,2021

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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard

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 If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard

Mar 13,2021

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The mind endeavors to conceive only such things as assert its power of activity… It therefore comes to pass that everyone

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 The mind endeavors to conceive only such things as assert its power of activity… It therefore comes to pass that everyone

Jan 26,2021

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To act absolutely in obedience to virtue is in us the same thing as to act, to live, or to preserve one’s being in

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 To act absolutely in obedience to virtue is in us the same thing as to act, to live, or to preserve one’s being in

Jan 13,2021

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Perfection and imperfection are names which do not differ much from the names beauty and ugliness.

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 Perfection and imperfection are names which do not differ much from the names beauty and ugliness.

Dec 28,2020

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Any emotion of a given individual differs from the emotion of another individual, only in so far as the essence of the

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 Any emotion of a given individual differs from the emotion of another individual, only in so far as the essence of the

Dec 05,2020

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#quotes #Feelings #philosophy #humanity #emotions #individuality #ethics #Baruch Spinoza

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

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 A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

Nov 21,2020

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Faith has become a mere compound of credulity and prejudices, which degrade man from rational being to beast, which

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 Faith has become a mere compound of credulity and prejudices, which degrade man from rational being to beast, which

Nov 09,2020

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As the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy, but is

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 As the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy, but is

Oct 24,2020

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