#thing

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#almost #could #difficult #excellent #found

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

#beautiful #beauty #called #confused #confusion

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#effect #exists #follow #nature #nothing

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

#deaf #good #indifferent #melancholy #mourn

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#alone #determined #exists #free #itself

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

— Baruch Spinoza

#god #nothing #whatsoever #without

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#dollars #done #million #nothing #you

Is anything accidental? ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#anything

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#because #direct #fear #full #god

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

#around #bag #better #breathing #canvas