Baruch Spinoza Quotes

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

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• As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Grow

• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Focus
  • Gym
  • Very

• The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sweet
  • Worst
  • Sweets

• What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Good
  • Business

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Success is really about your mindset.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Success
  • Mindset
  • Success Is

• Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Man
  • Religious
  • Poetry

• The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Creative
  • Others

• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Person

• I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Going
  • About
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• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Never
  • Influence

• I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Me
  • Temptation

• I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Feel
  • Shows
  • Weirdo

• You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Character
  • Girl

• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Brainy

• Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • She
  • Nature

• I look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

  

  Ashton Irwin 5 Seconds of Summer
  • Up
  • School

• I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Why

• My husband watched it live online and I was awakened with coffee and the good news. He's my biggest fan and he was really rooting for this to happen.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Good
  • Live
  • Husband

• You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you want to sit on a corner and suck your thumb, it takes a healthy ego to get up in the morning and say, 'I deserve to be here.'

  

  Peter Riegert
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• . . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • Order