Baruch Spinoza Quotes

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Baruch Spinoza

• Nature
• Beautiful
• Imagination
• Beauty
• Ugly
• Confused

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• It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

  

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• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

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• And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

  

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• There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.

  

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• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

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• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

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• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  

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• In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

  

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• There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

  

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• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

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• That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.

  

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• I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?

  

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• Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

  

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

  

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• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

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• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

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• Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

  

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• How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.

  

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• We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

  

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• The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven.

  

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• What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.

  

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• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination