A Quote by Baruch Spinoza

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.

Baruch Spinoza

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Baruch Spinoza
Dutch - Philosopher
November 24, 1632 - February 21, 1677

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Hannah Arendt

As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.

Swami Vivekananda

Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.

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Cormac McCarthy

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John C. Maxwell

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He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

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Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.