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Ethics (1677)
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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.
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He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.
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Avarice, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness.
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There is no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
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He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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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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