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Baruch Spinoza [1632-1677] Dutch

Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin. By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy.

Nature, Alone, Fear, God, Happiness, Imagination, Power, Beauty, Freedom, Good, Hope, Jealousy, Learning, Men, Motivational, Music, Peace, Religion, Science, Society, Strength, Time, War, Wisdom

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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.	Peace, War	101
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.		102
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.	Men	103
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.	Alone	104
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.	Good, Music, Time	105
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.	Fear, Hope, Wisdom	106
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.	Jealousy	107
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.	Power	108
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.	Nature	109
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.		110
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.		111
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.	Nature	112
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.	God	113
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.	Happiness	114
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.	Learning	115
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.	God	116
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.	Nature	117
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.	Power, Society	118
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.		119
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.		120
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.		121
I call him free who is led solely by reason.		122
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.	Freedom, Science	123
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.		124
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.		125
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.	Alone	126
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.	Motivational	201
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.		202
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.	Religion	203
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.		204
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.		205
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.	Beauty, Imagination	206
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.		207
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.	Happiness	208
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.		209
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.	Fear	210
Desire is the essence of a man.		211
We feel and know that we are eternal.		212
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.		213
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.		214
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.		215
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.	Strength	216
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.		217
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.		218
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.		219
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.	Imagination	220
Desire is the very essence of man.		221

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