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God is a thing that thinks....

God is a thing that thinks.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

I saw that all things I feared...

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

All the objects pursued by the...

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

The human mind cannot be absol...

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

Happiness is a virtue, not its...

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

I have tried sedulously not to...

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

Men would never be superstitio...

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

The order and connection of id...

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

Nothing comes to pass in natur...

Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same and everywhere one and thesame in her efficiency and power of action; that is, nature's laws and ordinances whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

Things could not have been bro...

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.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

God is the efficient cause not...

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.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

A miracle signifies nothing mo...

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

No matter how thin you slice i...

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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A man is as much affected plea...

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.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

...The body is affected by the...

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

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

We can always get along better...

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

Fear cannot be without hope no...

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

The terms good and bad indicat...

The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

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True knowledge of good and evi...

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

Men will find that they can .....

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

Benedikt Spinoza 262 quotes

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