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Knowledge Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- 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…
- The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge…
- The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
- Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
- 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…
- Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that…
- Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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