Human mind Quote by Baruch Spinoza

“The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.”

Baruch Spinoza

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

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

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