The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
BARUCH SPINOZAI 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.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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