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medbmz1982: The Ethics, written by Baruch Spinoza: Comprehensive Summary

baneres_matilde: “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

Ownsmoke: "When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master." Baruch Spinoza

babajidesewonik: "When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master." ~ Baruch Spinoza

welfordwrites: If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Baruch Spinoza

Philip_D_Conrad: Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. (Baruch Spinoza)

cryptofreak0: To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life - Baruch spinoza

Philip_D_Conrad: 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)

bishopadiele: "When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master." ~ Baruch Spinoza

augusta_giulia: "The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security. In fact the true aim of government is liberty." - Baruch Spinoza

IgnitePaul: "When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master." - Baruch Spinoza

VIadeemir: "When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master." Baruch Spinoza

choohyunnhoo: [명언]Will and intellect are one and the same thing. (Baruch Spinoza)play

Guillermo_Bravo: Advanced management with universal wisdom: Baruch Spinoza

dayuparama_: "God, nature, and mind were inseperable" -Baruch Spinoza-

wesrcurtis: Baruch de Spinoza. I wasn’t aware of the existence of a philosopher having such similar ideology to the one I’ve already come to develop. “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free” - Spinoza

Philip_D_Conrad: Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. (Baruch Spinoza)

Philip_D_Conrad: 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)

FredosRippleEF: “When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.” -Baruch Spinoza

WinterOakPress: “A free man thinks of nothing less than of death” - Baruch Spinoza

CerebralWisdom: Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. - Baruch Spinoza

WinterOakPress: “A free man thinks of nothing less than of death” - Baruch Spinoza

Philip_D_Conrad: Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. (Baruch Spinoza)

Philip_D_Conrad: 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)

choohyunnhoo: [명언]Will and intellect are one and the same thing. (Baruch Spinoza)play

ericacamposmar1: “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” - Baruch Spinoza

Philip_D_Conrad: Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. (Baruch Spinoza)

bawalsakti: To suffer no fools seems to be my life’s goal, at least vis a vis politics. The bar seems low, yes, but it’s not easy. To quote Baruch Spinoza: “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

NaviNous: Baruch Spinoza's (1632 – 1677) antidote to death and doomsday cult thinking:

Robert_Dunbar: Marked as to-read: Ethics by Baruch Spinoza

HunainBaghdadi: The world would be a happier place if people were as capable of silence as they were of speech. - Baruch Spinoza

hh2011281: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

rgtrendsetter: Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.-Baruch Spinoza StarMagicLounge WithRALPHGAIL

diegotgoulart: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

Thouotes: Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation? - Baruch Spinoza

Philip_D_Conrad: Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. (Baruch Spinoza)

choohyunnhoo: [명언]Will and intellect are one and the same thing. (Baruch Spinoza)play

Philip_D_Conrad: 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)

antoneogutu: Baruch Spinoza: "No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides."

antoneogutu: Baruch Spinoza: "The world would be happier if people had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak"

antoneogutu: "the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty." ~ Baruch Spinoza

antoneogutu: "Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness." ~ Baruch Spinoza

GaniyuMohammed7: The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. - Baruch Spinoza

Fau6tine: “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” Baruch Spinoza

anjaXIII: Baruch Spinoza quote about love from Ethics: “Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.”

rogernzonzila: If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past, Baruch Spinoza.

Philip_D_Conrad: Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. (Baruch Spinoza)

Philip_D_Conrad: 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)

IsaiahMakwakwa: YES, YOU ARE RIGHT. The THING should have taken 1,000 or more years. IN 1600 A GUY CALLED Baruch Spinoza BECAME THE father, better yet PRINCE, OF ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY. The socialists want to make sure EVERYONE appreciates that - they can even, "you know, TAKE YOU OUT!".

psposdknxsj: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

CerebralWisdom: Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. - Baruch Spinoza

khandela21: I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. - Baruch Spinoza

fadaa651: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

KobyNti: "Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious." -Baruch Spinoza

philosophytweet: "The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.” Baruch Spinoza

choohyunnhoo: [명언]Will and intellect are one and the same thing. (Baruch Spinoza)play

TheFoolishStoic: 8. The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche 9. Ethics - Baruch Spinoza 10. How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life by Seneca (trans. James S. Romm)

Philip_D_Conrad: 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)

CaaAokiSan: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

InfiDale3476: “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” - Baruch Spinoza

ChaSanabria: “Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it” Baruch Spinoza

psposdknxsj: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

hnoow1234: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

choohyunnhoo: [명언]Will and intellect are one and the same thing. (Baruch Spinoza)play

ironiaouciumes: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

sgbrownlow: The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ~Baruch Spinoza

TechingCrewLLC: Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. Baruch Spinoza

SaimaZaman13: “If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.” — Baruch Spinoza

CerebralWisdom: If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. - Baruch Spinoza

crow6841: “If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil” – Baruch Spinoza

ngugi111126: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

ru88031: I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.,Baruch Spinoza, On the Improvement of the Understanding,anxiety, fear, inner-peace, mind,

phi76297: I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.,Baruch Spinoza, On the Improvement of the Understanding,anxiety, fear, inner-peace, mind,

crow6841: “If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil” – Baruch Spinoza

sdsu_shah: "Minds, nevertheless, are not conquered by arms, but by love and generosity." — Baruch Spinoza

MalefactorMind: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

InfiDale3476: “The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.” - Baruch Spinoza

asdf68590950: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

Mckoy640: “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” -Baruch Spinoza

Infinitistic: Even TORAH's original Hebrew wording does not connote gender. GOD is not to be reduced from the. Infinite Eternal. Hence Baruch Spinoza was correct. GOD is not a person, a bull, a golden calf, a Lamborgini, a plate of Linguini, etc. GOD is LOVE. Problem with Hebrew; it's vague.

NadaAbuOmar3: Platonist ideas can be glimpsed in Spinoza's interpretation of intellectual love, precisely through the emphasis on the constant tension between the questions of mysticism and spirituality regarding the rational and affective principle. Baruch Spinoza

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

Philip_D_Conrad: Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. (Baruch Spinoza)

Philip_D_Conrad: 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)

choohyunnhoo: [명언]Will and intellect are one and the same thing. (Baruch Spinoza)play

psposdknxsj: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

Abbottxx08: “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free” - Baruch Spinoza

nohate251: "All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love." Baruch Spinoza FAHMAAN RULING AS RAVI

BivonOluoch1120: There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.,Baruch Spinoza,Fear, No Fear ,

CerebralWisdom: He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. - Baruch Spinoza

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rsam3737: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

Philip_D_Conrad: Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. (Baruch Spinoza)

Philip_D_Conrad: 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)

philobits: “Greed, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness.” — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

thifffffjkkl: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

joaopiquer: “Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” –Baruch Spinoza

joekaniu: “Greed, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness.” — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics



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