“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
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“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune’s greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.”
Baruch Spinoza
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“As men’s habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude … that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.”
Baruch Spinoza
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“Hence anyone who seeks for the true cause of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them as a fool, is set down and denounced as a impious heretic by those, whom the masses adore as the interpreters of nature and the gods.”
Baruch Spinoza
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“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
Baruch Spinoza
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“Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.”
Baruch Spinoza
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“He, who has a true idea, simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.”
Baruch Spinoza
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