42 Quotes About Spinoza
- Author The Story of Philsophy
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What is often called will, as the impulsive force which determines the duration of an idea in consciousness, should be called desire,-which 'is the very essence of man.' Desire is an appetite or instinct of which we are conscious; but instincts need not always operate through conscious desire.
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- Author Laurent Binet
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Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Down with dialectics!
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- Author Irvin D. Yalom
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تمام قوم اسرائیل در نگرش محترمانه خود به تورات، در همان گناهی دخیل بودند که خدا به وسیله موسی به آنها هشدار داده بود: بت برستی. در همه جا یهودیان نه بت هایی طلایی بلکه بت هایی از «کاغذ و جوهر» را می پرستیدند
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- Author Baruch Spinoza
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Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
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- Author Roger Scruton
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Religious quarrels,’ he added, ‘do not arise so much from ardent zeal for religion, as from men’s various dispositions and love of contradiction, which causes them habitually to distort and condemn everything, however rightly it may have been said.
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- Author Roger Scruton
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The letters between the two philosophers were cordial, although Spinoza at first distrusted Leibniz, who in turn referred to him privately as ‘a Jew expelled from the synagogue for his monstrous opinions’. Since the fundamental assumptions behind their two systems are profoundly similar, it is perhaps not surprising that the two philosophers – whose conclusions are wholly opposed – should have treated each other with a certain caution.
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