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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.

Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.

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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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