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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.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Aid Beyond Care Every Every Man Far Give Incumbent Man Poor Poor Man Power Reach Society Whole

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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

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

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

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Becoming Established How Know Philosophy Religion Teach Without

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

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Conceived God Nothing Whatsoever Without

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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Also Direct Fame Fancy Great Lives Men Must Our Our Lives Please Pursue

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

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Absolutely Arts Freedom Liberal Liberal Arts Necessary Progress Science

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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.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Bad Cannot Civil Common Conceived Consent Good Natural Natural State Only Sin State Where

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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

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

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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.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Absence Benevolence Confidence Disposition Justice Mere Mind Peace Springs State Virtue War

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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Fear Hope No Fear No Hope

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 24th, 1632

Died: February 21st, 1677

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