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Measure, time and number are n...

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

The things...are esteemed as t...

The things...are esteemed as the greatest good of all...can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

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According as each has been edu...

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

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Freedom is self-determination....

Freedom is self-determination.

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Reason connot defeat emotion, ...

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

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Will and intellect are one and...

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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To understand something is to ...

To understand something is to be delivered of it.

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Whatsoever is, is in God....

Whatsoever is, is in God.

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Happiness is not the reward of...

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

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The mind can only imagine anyt...

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

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Yet nature cannot be contraven...

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

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Whatever increases, decreases,...

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

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But if men would give heed to ...

But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.

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Pride is over-estimation of on...

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

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Surely human affairs would be ...

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

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We are so constituted by Natur...

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don

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If slavery, barbarism and deso...

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

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I do not presume that I have f...

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

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It is sure that those are most...

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

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In the mind there is no absolu...

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

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