Baruch Spinoza

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Biography : Dutch philosopher.
Born: 1632 - Died: 1677
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: Netherlands

Netherlands

Baruch Spinoza - Quotes

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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Joy is the transition of man from a less to a greater perfection.
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Humility is not a virtue; that is, it does not arise from reason.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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Desire is the essence of a man.
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No one has yet determined what the body can do.
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The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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It is of the nature of Reason to perceive things under a certain species of eternity.
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He who repents is twice unhappy or twice impotent.
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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but there remains of it something which is eternal.
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