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

Absolute Art Freedom Liberty Necessary Progress Science
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
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
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
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Endeavor Understand Virtue
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire Philosophy Positive
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
Freedom is self-determination.
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Determination Freedom One Liner
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
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
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
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
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Genuine Happiness Life Need Want

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