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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Fear Hope Life
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
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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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
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
The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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Distress Give Up Life Live Philosophy Real Struggle
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
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Absolute Art Freedom Liberty Necessary Progress Science
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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