From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge. - Baruch Spinoza
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
- Baruch Spinoza
To understand something is to be delivered of it. - Baruch Spinoza
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter. - Baruch Spinoza
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts. - Baruch Spinoza
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
Whatsoever is, is in God. - Baruch Spinoza
Whatsoever is, is in God.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides. - Baruch Spinoza
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
All is One (Nature, God) - Baruch Spinoza
All is One (Nature, God)
God is not He who is, but That which is. - Baruch Spinoza
God is not He who is, but That which is.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. - Baruch Spinoza
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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