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Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

Dutch Philosopher

Born: Nov 24, 1632

Died: Feb 21, 1677

Free Man Men Nature Nothing Virtue

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza

War Confidence Justice Peace Mind Disposition State Virtue Benevolence Absence

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Spinoza

Motivational Wax Indignant Weep Understand

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. Baruch Spinoza

Hate Laugh Weep Understand Nor Human Human Actions Them Actions

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. Baruch Spinoza

Made Understand Ceaseless Scorn Effort Human Human Actions Them Actions Ridicule

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza

Happiness Love Quality Solely Object Attached Depends Which Unhappiness

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. Baruch Spinoza

Nature Absurd Contrary Whatsoever Reason

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. Baruch Spinoza

Speak World Men Would Would-Be Silent Had Same Happier Capacity

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. Baruch Spinoza

First Wish Be The First More Taken None Proud Than Flattery Who

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

Beautiful Nature You Confused Ugly Confusion Beauty Imagination Relation Our Deformity Would Only Attribute Order Either Warn Things

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

You Be True Astonished True New Ideas Well Well Known Known Because Accepted Does New Ideas Cease Many Therefore Thing

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Baruch Spinoza

Wisdom Hope Fear Without Nor Cannot

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. Baruch Spinoza

Ignorance Pride Despondency Self Greatest

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. Baruch Spinoza

God Nothing Conceived Without Whatsoever

True virtue is life under the direction of reason. Baruch Spinoza

Life Virtue Direction True Reason

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. Baruch Spinoza

Religion Philosophy Know Without Becoming How Established Teach

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. Baruch Spinoza

Music Time Good Same Thing Melancholy Those Bad Neither Indifferent Deaf Nor Mourn Same Same Time Who Thing

I call him free who is led solely by reason. Baruch Spinoza

Free Solely Call Him Led Reason Who

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it. Baruch Spinoza

Man Impossible Long Determined He Him Cannot Should Consequently

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. Baruch Spinoza

God Cause All Things Transient Things

We feel and know that we are eternal. Baruch Spinoza

Feel Know Eternal

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