Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

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• Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Past
  • Person
  • New

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Drums
  • Bass

• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • God
  • Home

• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Work
  • Present

• We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Life
  • You
  • Relax

• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Silver
  • Secretary
  • Empower

• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Find

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Bad
  • Hope
  • Best

• As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • Dancing
  • Grandma

• It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Change
  • Peace
  • Agreement

• I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Collaboration
  • Getting

• I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Pretty
  • Parents
  • Open

• If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Scary
  • Honest
  • Really

• When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• It is everybody's wish to work with Mani Ratnam.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Everybody

• I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Up
  • Song
  • Girl

• I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • House
  • Qualities
  • Passengers

• A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure.

  

  J. J. Hardy

• From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • God
  • Nature
  • Discovery

• I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell.

  

  Aristotle
  • Hell
  • Goofy

• Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Order
  • Preserves