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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

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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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Belong Man Nature Understand
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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Compell Follow Life Practical Science Truth
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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Death Life Man Meditation Wisdom
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Faith Obedience Philosophy Save Truth
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive

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