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Ethics (1677)
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.
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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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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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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence.
Corr. Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner.
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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
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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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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
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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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Men will find that they can prepare with mutual aid far more easily what they need, and avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides, by united forces.
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In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.
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Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.
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That eternal and infinite being we call God, or Nature [Deus sive Natura], acts from the same necessity from which he exists.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other.
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Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconstant, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
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Born:
November 24, 1632
Died:
February 21, 1677
(aged 44)
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