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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Disturb Establishment Philosophy Religion Teaching
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Desire Mankind Men Reason Rule
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
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
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
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
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
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
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Absence Benevolence Confidence Justice Mind Peace Virtue War

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