Chiefs Quote by Baruch Spinoza

“I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.”

Baruch Spinoza

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Chiefs Distinction Former Ignorance Knowledge Latter Religion Superstitions

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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

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But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature…

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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…

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