Baruch Spinoza - Understand Quotes

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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.

Baruch Spinoza

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

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Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

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I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.

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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

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The doctrines added by certain churches, such as that God took upon himself human nature, I have expressly said that I do not understand; in fact, to speak the truth, they seem to me no less absurd than would a statement, that a circle had taken upon itself the nature of a square.

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I understand that to be CAUSE OF ITSELF (causa sui) whose essence involves existence and whose nature cannot be conceived unless existing.

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