Quote #44

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

More from Baruch Spinoza

  1. Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
  2. The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
  3. Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the d…
  4. Mind and body are one and the same individual which is conceived now under the attribute of thought, and now under the attribute of extensi…
  5. Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed …
  6. He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
  7. God and all attributes of God are eternal.
  8. He, who has a true idea, simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

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