Dutch - Philosopher | November 24, 1632 - February 21, 1677
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch Spinoza
FeelKnowEternal
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
NatureReasonAbsurdContrary
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.
ImaginationManProudRealityBecome
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.
ManImpossibleLongHimDetermined
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
FearWisdomHopeWithoutCannotNor
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
NatureNothingFollowWhoseEffect
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.
NatureBeautyBeautifulImagination
Desire is the essence of a man.
ManDesireEssence
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
GoodMenGood And EvilEvilFree
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
RewardVirtueItselfBlessedness
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.
IdeasYouBe TrueNewTrueWell
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
UnderstandVirtueFirstEndeavor
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