"The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency."
Philosopher, Rationalist
Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century philosopher known for his work 'Ethics', which laid the groundwork for modern rationalism and a unique understanding of God and nature.
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"The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency."
"Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained."
"Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it."