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Men believe themselves to have free will because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined. - BARUCH SPINOZA — Cris Evatt
Hoffmeier furnishes a sophisticated fresh approach to the Biblical Exodus traditions filled with detailed Egyptological background, and utterly indispensable because of its basis in recent, and in many cases as yet unpublished, archaeological data. This is a virtual encyclopedia of the Exodus. — Baruch Halpern
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. — Baruch Spinoza
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. — Bernard Baruch
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. — Baruch Spinoza
Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men. — Baruch Spinoza
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves. — Bernard Baruch
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. — Bernard Baruch
Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action. — Baruch Spinoza
If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements. — Albert Einstein
Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined. — Baruch Spinoza
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. — Bernard M. Baruch
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished. — Baruch Spinoza
Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same and everywhere one and thesame in her efficiency and power of action; that is, nature's laws and ordinances whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules. — Baruch Spinoza
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing. — Baruch Spinoza
Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse. — Baruch Spinoza
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. — Baruch Spinoza
American financier Bernard Baruch once remarked, 'Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. — Ashwin Sanghi
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. — Baruch Spinoza
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness. — Baruch Spinoza
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life. — Baruch Spinoza
Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice. — Baruch Spinoza
As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of
fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind! — Baruch Spinoza
A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life. — Baruch Spinoza
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary. — Baruch Spinoza
America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path. — Bernard Baruch
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. — Bernard Baruch
The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad. — Baruch Spinoza
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
The purpose of the state is really freedom. — Baruch Spinoza
The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine. — Baruch Spinoza
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. — Baruch Spinoza
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. — Bernard Baruch
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza
Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals. — Baruch Spinoza
Desire is the very essence of man. — Baruch Spinoza
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. — Baruch Spinoza
Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds. — Baruch Spinoza
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things. — Baruch Spinoza
Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good — Baruch Spinoza
In the mind there is no absolute or free will. — Baruch Spinoza
Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us]. — Baruch Spinoza
The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life. — Grace Baruch
God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence.
Corr. Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner. — Baruch Spinoza
A man can't retire his experience. — Bernard Baruch
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. — Bernard Baruch
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it ... — Baruch Spinoza
We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don — Baruch Spinoza
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. — Bernard Baruch
The holy word of God is on everyone's lips ... but ... we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do. — Baruch Spinoza
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men. — Bernard Baruch
In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason. — Baruch Spinoza
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come. — Bernard Baruch
I say expressly, that the mind has not an adequate but only a confused knowledge of itself, its own body, and of external bodies, whenever it perceives things after the common order of nature; that is, whenever it is determined from without, namely, by the fortuitous play of circumstance, to regard this or that; not at such times as it is determined from within, that is, by the fact of regarding several things at once, to understand their points of agreement, difference, and contrast. Whenever it is determined in anywise from within, it regards things clearly and distinctly, as I will show below. — Baruch Spinoza
Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause. — Baruch Spinoza
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. — Baruch Spinoza
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. — Baruch Spinoza
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard M. Baruch
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace. — Baruch Spinoza
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. — Baruch Spinoza
By that which is self-caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent. — Baruch Spinoza
Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share. — Bernard Baruch
The stock market is people. — Bernard Baruch
I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as
agree best with practice. — Baruch Spinoza
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him. — Bernard Baruch
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics. — Bernard Baruch
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. — Baruch Spinoza
By emotion I mean the modifications of the body, whereby the active power of the said body is increased or diminished, aided or constrained, and also the ideas of such modifications. — Baruch Spinoza
According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions. — Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. — Baruch Spinoza
The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over. — Baruch Spinoza
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch
I made my money by selling too soon. — Bernard M. Baruch
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws. — Baruch Spinoza
Superstitious persons, who know better how to rail at vice than how to teach virtue, and who strive not to guide men by reason, but so to restrain them that they would rather escape evil than love virtue, have no other aim but to make others as wretched as themselves. Wherefore it is nothing wonderful, if they be generally troublesome and odious to their fellow man. — Baruch Spinoza
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. — Bernard Baruch
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. — Baruch Spinoza
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. — Baruch Spinoza
[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance. — Baruch Spinoza
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state. — Bernard Baruch
Desire is the essence of a man. — Baruch Spinoza
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness. — Baruch Spinoza
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. — Baruch Spinoza
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue. — Baruch Spinoza
Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order. — Baruch Spinoza
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination. — Bernard Baruch
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. — Baruch Spinoza
The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures. — Baruch Spinoza