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Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic by those, whom the masses adore as the interpreters of nature and the gods. Such persons know that, with the removal of ignorance, the wonder which forms their only available means for proving and preserving their authority would vanish also. - Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza
Attribution: Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1623–1677), Dutch pantheistic philosopher. ). The Ethics, bk. I, Appendix, On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, pp. 78-79, trans. by R.H.M. Elwes, Dover, New York (1955. Spinoza’s Ethics was one of the most revolutionary texts of modern philosophy.

Categories: Miracles, Nature, Pantheistic Philosopher

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