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The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings

(Hackett Classics)

by Baruch Spinoza, Benedictus de Spinoza

Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza's Ethics, this anthology provides the Ethics, related writings, and two valuable appendices: List of Propositions from the Ethics, which helps readers to trac

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“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For…”

— Baruch Spinoza, amazon.com

Tagged: Fools, Heretics, Impious, Philosophers, Mob Mentality

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”

— Baruch Spinoza, amazon.com

Tagged: Quality, excellence, difficult, rare