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Baruch Spinoza
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  • They were polished by the Dutch philosopher Spinoza sometime during the mid-1600s.†   (source)
  • According to Spinoza, this tree is free.†   (source)
  • Locke believed—just like Descartes and Spinoza— that the material world is a reality.†   (source)
  • When things got really tough, Spinoza was even deserted by his own family.†   (source)
  • Perhaps most of all for another great philosopher, Ba-ruch Spinoza, who lived from 1632 to 1677.†   (source)
  • Not entirely … Spinoza didn't only say that everything is nature.†   (source)
  • Spinoza God is not a puppeteer They sat silently for a long time.†   (source)
  • This was true of Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant.†   (source)
  • Spinoza belonged to the Jewish community of Amsterdam, but he was excommunicated for heresy.†   (source)
  • Well, Spinoza is not an easy philosopher to grasp.†   (source)
  • To Spinoza, God did not create the world in order to stand outside it.†   (source)
  • But when Spinoza uses the word 'nature,' he doesn't only mean extended nature.†   (source)
  • But let us pursue Spinoza's own reasoning.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Spinoza expresses it differently.†   (source)
  • He reacted against the idealistic philosophy of Spinoza just as Kierkegaard reacted against Hegel.†   (source)
  • According to Spinoza, we humans recognize two of God's qualities or manifestations.†   (source)
  • When Spinoza uses the word ethics, he means both the art of living and moral conduct.†   (source)
  • This was what Spinoza called seeing everything 'sub specie aeternitatis.'†   (source)
  • Spinoza had a determinist view of the material, or natural, world.†   (source)
  • Briefly, that was also Spinoza's ethics.†   (source)
  • Spinoza believed that God—or the laws of nature—is the inner cause of everything that happens.†   (source)
  • Then he said: "Last time we sat here I told you about Descartes and Spinoza.†   (source)
  • Yes, one almost needs a hammer and chisel to get through Spinoza's language.†   (source)
  • Second only to the Word of God, he believed the word of Spinoza.†   (source)
  • Spinoza called these qualities God's attributes, and these two attributes are identical with Descartes's 'thought' and 'extension.'†   (source)
  • I would probably understand better how valuable these things are if I knew who Spinoza and Descartes were.†   (source)
  • He was familiar both with the rationalism of Descartes and Spinoza and the empiricism of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.†   (source)
  • However, Spinoza rejected this split.†   (source)
  • One of the pillars of Spinoza's philosophy was indeed to see things from the perspective of eternity.†   (source)
  • At the same time we saw philosophers like the Stoics, for example, and Spinoza, who said that everything happens through the necessity of natural law.†   (source)
  • The first significant system-builder was Descartes, and he was followed by Spinoza and Leibniz, Locke and Berkeley, Hume and Kant.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically enough, few have spoken out more powerfully in the cause of free speech and religious tolerance than Spinoza.†   (source)
  • The leading rationalists in the seventeenth century were Descartes, who was French; Spinoza, who was Dutch; and Leibniz, who was German.†   (source)
  • Ah, but the difference between Descartes and Spinoza is not as deep-seated as many have often claimed.†   (source)
  • Spinoza emphasizes that there is only one being which is totally and utterly 'its own cause' and can act with complete freedom.†   (source)
  • Spinoza maintained that all material things and things that happen around us are an expression of God or nature.†   (source)
  • It's only when Spinoza identifies God with nature—or God and creation—that he distances himself a good way from both Descartes and from the Jewish and Christian doctrines.†   (source)
  • It means viewing nature as a whole; the Romantics were tracing their roots not only back to Spinoza, but also to Plotinus and Renaissance philosophers like Jakob Bohme and Giordano Bruno.†   (source)
  • After a while he pointed down at the table between them and said: "The two greatest philosophers in the seventeenth century were Descartes and Spinoza.†   (source)
  • Spinoza said that it was our passions—such as ambition and lust—which prevent us from achieving true happiness and harmony, but that if we recognize that everything happens from necessity, we can achieve an intuitive understanding of nature as a whole.†   (source)
  • I grant you, it's obvious that the system didn't work in ancient Mesopotamia--but compare the failure of Israel, where law was wholly rational, as no one has shown more clearly than Spinoza, in his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, or whatever it's called.†   (source)
  • All that he had read in books, all the tranquil wisdom he had professed so glibly in his philosophy course, and the great names of Plato and Plotinus, of Spinoza and Immanuel Kant, of Hegel and Descartes, left him now, under the mastering surge of his wild Celtic superstition.†   (source)
  • There was a careless office of old equipment, and he sat in rolled sleeves and smoked cigars at a desk where my book-accustomed eyes spotted a Spinoza and a Hegel and other things odd for a doctor, and especially one in his line.†   (source)
  • Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?†   (source)
  • _Bene agere et loetari_—to do good cheerfully—which he had heard to be the philosophy of one Spinoza, might be his own even now.†   (source)
  • He delighted in the robust common sense of Thomas Hobbes; Spinoza filled him with awe, he had never before come in contact with a mind so noble, so unapproachable and austere; it reminded him of that statue by Rodin, L'Age d'Airain, which he passionately admired; and then there was Hume: the scepticism of that charming philosopher touched a kindred note in Philip; and, revelling in the lucid style which seemed able to put complicated thought into simple words, musical and measured, he…†   (source)
  • I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet.†   (source)
  • Of late in Moscow and in the country, since he had become convinced that he would find no solution in the materialists, he had read and re-read thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non-materialistic explanation of life.†   (source)
  • This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.†   (source)
  • And says he: —Mendelssohn was a jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza.†   (source)
  • Told her what Spinoza says in that book of poor papa's.†   (source)
  • Thoughts from Spinoza (maroon leather).†   (source)
  • …and her husband at the Gaiety something he did about insurance for him in Drimmies I was fit to be tied though I wouldnt give in with that gentleman of fashion staring down at me with his glasses and him the other side of me talking about Spinoza and his soul thats dead I suppose millions of years ago I smiled the best I could all in a swamp leaning forward as if I was interested having to sit it out then to the last tag I wont forget that wife of Scarli in a hurry supposed to be a…†   (source)
  • Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (composer), Baruch Spinoza (philosopher), Mendoza (pugilist), Ferdinand Lassalle (reformer, duellist).†   (source)
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