Baruch Spinoza Quotes

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • River
  • Lake
  • Wilderness

• I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Say
  • Mystery
  • Short

• I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Language

• I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Person
  • Company
  • Run

• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • True
  • Control
  • Military

• The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Generations

• It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Work

• God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Art
  • Science

• We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also learned that the parents have been our best investigators in looking for both causes of autism and for treatments.

  

  Dan Burton
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Parents

• You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

  

  John Travolta
  • Control
  • Quality
  • Ifs

• I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hope

• An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.

  

  Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Fall
  • Silence
  • Sky

• The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Comedy
  • Water
  • Tree

• I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Grow

• Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ. As long as he remains in the flesh, unregenerate, he will never choose Christ. He cannot choose Christ precisely because he cannot act against his own will. His fall is so great that only the effectual grace of God working in his heart can bring him to faith.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

  

  William Macneile Dixon
  • Desires
  • Attract
  • Fillings

• I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Actions
  • Desires
  • Consider