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Baruch Spinoza quotes about nature

Dutch Philosopher November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677

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...everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking... Baruch Spinoza
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
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids. Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza quote: "Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its..."
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
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
Baruch Spinoza quote: "Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be..."
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge. Baruch Spinoza
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
Baruch Spinoza quote: "Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow."
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza quote: "Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and..."
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. Baruch Spinoza

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