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The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of

The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Baruch Spinoza

Thinking, Mind, Three

"On the Improvement of the Understanding". Book by Baruch Spinoza, 1662.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

Baruch Spinoza

Men, Offers

"Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza

Men, Laughing, Understanding

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

Baruch Spinoza

Mind, Free Will, Determinism

Baruch Spinoza (2002). “Spinoza: The Complete Works”, p.272, Hackett Publishing

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Baruch Spinoza

Philosophical, Men, Long

Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.219, Commodius Vicus

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Baruch Spinoza

Obedience, Piety

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

Baruch Spinoza

Blessed, Thinking, Weak

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.

Baruch Spinoza

Taken, Ignorance, Mean

"The Bold Truth" by Lazima Tutashinda, (p. 266), January 1, 1997.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Baruch Spinoza

Philosophical, Self, Ideas

"Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Part III : On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions, Prop. 51: Note, 1677.

A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.

Baruch Spinoza

Men, People, Hatred

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.