Baruch Spinoza Short Quotes

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Will and Intellect are one and the same thing.

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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There is no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.

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Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self.

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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

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Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

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Avarice, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness.

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He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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God is the Immanent Cause of all things, never truly transcendent from them.

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My purpose is to explain, not the meaning of words, but the nature of things.

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Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

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Peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character.

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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.

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

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

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Nature has set no end before herself, and... all final causes are nothing but human fictions.

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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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The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.

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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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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

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The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.

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