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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

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The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The comprehensi...more

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You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in order to take up one thing...more

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Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I ...more