Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Friday, April 4, 2014 – Baruch Spinoza
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Friday, April 4, 2014 – Baruch Spinoza
“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
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“It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.”
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“The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”
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“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”
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“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
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“Desire is the essence of a man.”
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“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
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“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
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“I call him free who is led solely by reason.”
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“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
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“So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.”
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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; each would then obey God freely with his whole heart, while nothing would be publicly honoured save justice and charity.”
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“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted ; not indeed by the avaricious, … but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.”
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“Of all heroes, Spinoza was Einstein’s greatest. No one expressed more strongly than he a belief in the harmony, the beauty, and, most of all, the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.”
John Archibald Wheeler, in “Albert Einstein in Biographical Memoirs Vol. 51, by the National Academy of Sciences
Wikipedia: Baruch Spinoza