Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.
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
Whatsoever is, is in God. - Baruch Spinoza
Whatsoever is, is in God.
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.
God is not He who is, but That which is. - Baruch Spinoza
God is not He who is, but That which is.
To understand something is to be delivered of it. - Baruch Spinoza
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
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.
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)
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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