Baruch Spinoza Quotes

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

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• I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lost
  • Well
  • Mental

• Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Natural
  • Wonderful
  • Richness

• In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Period
  • See

• Concerning his own rages, I am convinced that they are not real, that they are sometimes experiments, but that in the main they are the habits of a pose or attitude he has seen fit to take toward his fellowman.

  

  Jack London
  • Real
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• It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

  

  Alexander Fleming
  • May
  • Team
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• Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.

  

  David Henry Hwang
  • Parents
  • Culture
  • Control

• To ensure financial stability, we expect the provision of U.S. government securities settlement services to be robust in nearly all contingencies.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Financial

• I love watches. I have a Hublot, a Breitling, and a Cartier. Different accessories that I match together just to be comfortable and casual.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Different
  • Together

• Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • God
  • Live
  • True

• Good work is good work wherever it is.

  

  Lesley Ann Warren
  • Good
  • Work

• Torrid has given me an amazing opportunity. I can reach out to different girls and help them realize that they are beautiful, too.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Different
  • Help
  • Beautiful

• With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • World
  • Poetry

• Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I'll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.

  

  Katherine Johnson

• Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so much you can do as an actor in a movie.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• Who first invented work, and bound the freeAnd holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . . . . . .To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . . . . . .Sabbath-less Satan!

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Work
  • Holiday
  • Satan

• We no longer seek the 'cause' of events in the nature of a single isolated object, but in the relationship between an object and its surroundings.

  

  Kurt Lewin
  • Nature
  • Relationship
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• It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

  

  George McGovern
  • War
  • Patriotic

• God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

  

  Whitney Houston
  • God
  • Singing
  • Voice

• A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.

  

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
  • Understanding
  • Prince
  • Trusting

• The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Determine
  • Injuries
  • Ruler

• Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Virtue

• Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard.

  

  Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Problems
  • Solutions
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• He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Manner
  • Eloquent
  • Acute