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Human Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost…
- Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
- I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
- The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
- The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
- 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…
- The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
- I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
- Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as…
- I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the…
- I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
- As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions, and merely…
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