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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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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.

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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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Born: November 24, 1632
Died: February 21, 1677 (aged 44)
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