Baruch Spinoza
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Spinoza was born in Amsterdam to a Portuguese-Jewish family and was permanently expelled from its Jewish community in 1656 for challenging rabbinic authority.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 24 Nov 1632, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 21 Feb 1677, The Hague, aged 44, probably of tuberculosis (opens wiqqi.app)
- Expelled: Permanently, from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community, 1656 (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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46 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Whatever exists is in God, and without God nothing can exist or be conceived (opens korrents.com)
“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.”
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People think themselves free because they are aware of their wishes but ignorant of the causes that make them wish (opens korrents.com)
“Herefrom it follows, first, that men think themselves free inasmuch as they are conscious of their volitions and desires, and never even dream, in their ignorance, of the causes which have disposed them so to wish and…”
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The mind has no absolute or free will; each choice is determined by a cause, itself determined by another, without end (opens korrents.com)
“In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.”
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Whatever exists is in God, and without God nothing can exist or be conceived (opens korrents.com)