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Baruch Spinoza

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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.


— Baruch Spinoza


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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.


— Baruch Spinoza


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Desire is the essence of a man.


— Baruch Spinoza


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Desire is the very essence of man.


— Baruch Spinoza


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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


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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.


— Baruch Spinoza


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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.


— Baruch Spinoza


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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.


— Baruch Spinoza


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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.


— Baruch Spinoza


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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.


— Baruch Spinoza


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Martin Joughin (New York: Columbia University Press). " Princeton Princeton University Press 1989. And he had committed the "monstrous deed" contrary the regulations of the synagogue and the views of certain rabbinical authorities (including Maimonides) of filing suit in a civil court rather than with the synagogue authorities—to renounce his father's heritage no less.

Spinoza's philosophical accomplishments and moral character prompted 20th century philosopher Gilles Deleuze to name him "the 'prince' of philosophers". Spinoza lived quietly as a lens grinder turning down rewards and honors throughout his life including prestigious teaching positions and gave his family inheritance to his sister. The Jewish religious authorities issued a cherem (Hebrew: חרם a kind of ban shunning ostracism expulsion or excommunication) against him effectively excluding him from Jewish society at age 23.

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