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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza : Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. # Ideas # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Antoine De Saint-Exupery : " A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. " # Ideas # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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H L Mencken : " Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. " # Ideas # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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H L Hunt : " Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. " # Ideas # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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H L Mencken : " Platitude — An idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. " # Ideas # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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David H Comins : " People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. " # Ideas # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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David Lynch : " The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead. " # Ideas # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Alfred Victor Vigny : " The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas. " # Ideas # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Carl Jung : " Because we cannot discover God's throne in the sky with a radiotelescope or establish (for certain) that a beloved father or mother is still about in a more or less corporeal form, people assume that such ideas are "not true." I would rather say that they are not "true" enough, for these are conceptions of a kind that have accompanied human life from prehistoric times, and that still break through into consciousness at any provocation. " # Ideas # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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J William Galbraith : " Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability. " # Ideas # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Steven Pinker : " Intelligence, then, is the ability to attain goals in the face of obstacles by means of decisions based on rational (truth-obeying) rules. The computer scientists Allen Newell and Herbert Simon fleshed this idea out further by noting that intelligence consists of specifying a goal, assessing the current situation to see how it differs from the goal, and applying a set of operations that reduce the difference. Perhaps reassuringly, by this definition human beings, not just aliens, are intelligent. We have desires, and we pursue them using beliefs, which, when all goes well, are at least approximately or probabilistically true. " # Ideas # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." # Peace # Confidence # Virtue

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand." # Understanding

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " You seem to wish to employ reason, and ask me, "How I know that my philosophy is the best among all that have ever been taught in the world, or are being taught, or ever will be taught?" a question which I might with much greater right ask you; for I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy. If you ask in what way I know it, I answer: In the same way as you know that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles: that this is sufficient, will be denied by no one whose brain is sound, and who does not go dreaming of evil spirits inspiring us with false ideas like the true. For the truth is the index of itself and of what is false. But you, who presume that you have at last found the best religion, or rather the best men, on whom you have pinned your credulity, you, "who know that they are the best among all who have taught, do now teach, or shall in future teach other religions. Have you examined all religions, ancient as well as modern, taught here and in India and everywhere throughout the world? And, if you, have duly examined them, how do you know that you have chosen the best" since you can give no reason for the faith that is in you? But you will say, that you acquiesce in the inward testimony of the Spirit of God, while the rest of mankind are ensnared and deceived by the prince of evil spirits. But all those outside the pale of the Romish Church can with equal right proclaim of their own creed what you proclaim of yours. As to what you add of the common consent of myriads of men and the uninterrupted ecclesiastical succession, this is the very catch-word of the Pharisees. They with no less confidence than the devotees of Rome bring forward their myriad witnesses, who as pertinaciously as the Roman witnesses repeat what they have heard, as though it were their personal experience. Further, they carry back their line to Adam. They boast with equal arrogance, that their Church has continued to this day unmoved and unimpaired in spite of the hatred of Christians and heathen. They more than any other sect are supported by antiquity. They exclaim with one voice, that they have received their traditions from God Himself, and that they alone preserve the Word of God both written and unwritten. That all heresies have issued from them, and that they have remained constant through thousands of years under no constraint of temporal dominion, but by the sole efficacy of their superstition, no one can deny. The miracles they tell of would tire a thousand tongues. But their chief boast is, that they count a far greater number of martyrs than any other nation, a number which is daily increased by those who suffer with singular constancy for the faith they profess; nor is their boasting false. I myself knew among others of a certain Judah called the faithful, who in the midst of the flames, when he was already thought to be dead, lifted his voice to sing the hymn beginning, "To Thee, O God, I offer up my soul," and so singing perished." # Books - Reading # Love # Death and Dying

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " We feel and know that we are eternal." # Immortality

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " Desire is the essence of a man." # Desire

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " 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." # Beauty # Imagination # Age and Aging

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men." # Fame # Happiness # Life and Living

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not." # Flattery # Humility # Pride

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone." # Freedom # Power # Hope

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Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza: " To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole." # Aid and Assistance # Freedom # Power

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