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Thinking Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
- 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…
- 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…
- Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
- 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…
- 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…
- everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve…
- A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
- If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question…
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