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Rather Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
- 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…
- Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
- Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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