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Title: On the Improvement of Understanding
Author : Benedict de Spinoza
Release Date : January 25, 2016
Genre: Philosophy,Books,Nonfiction,Religion & Spirituality,
Pages : * pages
Size : 4408 KB

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After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.