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Baruch Spinoza Quote - 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.

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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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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Crime Government Opinion Thought
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Capacity Happiness Men Silence Speak World
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Emotion Man Master Prey
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire Mankind Men Reason Rule
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Freedom One Liner Reason
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Absolute Art Freedom Liberty Necessary Progress Science
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
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
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View

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