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One Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
- No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally…
- I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently…
- Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.
- All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control…
- 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…
- As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may…
- Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
- We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
- One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those…
- The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must…
- He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love,…
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