Crossword-Solution: SPINOZA
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| 17th-century Dutch philosopher who wrote "Ethics" | 1 answer |
| 17th-century rationalist | 1 answer |
| Author of "Ethics" | 1 answer |
| Dutch Jewish philosopher. | 1 answer |
| Dutch philosopher of the 17th century. | 1 answer |
| Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system | 1 answer |
| Dutch philosopher, expounder of pantheism | 1 answer |
| Dutch philosopher: 1632–77 | 1 answer |
| Ethics author | 1 answer |
| Famous Dutch philosopher (1632–77). | 1 answer |
| Lens-grinding Dutch philosopher | 1 answer |
| Most famous Dutch philosopher. | 1 answer |
| Philosopher and lens polisher. | 1 answer |
| Dutch philosopher | 2 answers |
| Baruch | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPINOZA (5)
For example, Euclid’s ‘Elements’, Newton’s ‘Principia’, Spinoza’s ‘Ethica’, and Kant’s ‘Critique of the Pure Reason’, do not properly belong to literature.
Lamennais at one time denies evil, at another makes God the author of evil, and at still another seeks outside of God a first cause which is not God,--an amalgam of _entites_ more or less incoherent, borrowed from Plato, Proclus, Spinoza, I might say even from all philosophers.
Fate plays such queer tricks that I've stopped guessing at to-morrow." "What was it Miss Dumont's friend, Scarborough, quoted from Spinoza at Atwater's the other night? 'If a stone, on its way from the sling through the air, could speak, it would say, "How free I am!'" Is that the way you feel?" There came into Pauline's eyes a look of pain so intense that he glanced away.
Human love is a subjective thing—the essence itself of man, as that great thinker Spinoza the philosopher says—_ipsa hominis essentia_—it is joy accompanied by an idea which we project against any suitable object in the line of our vision, just as the rainbow iris is projected against an oak, ash, or elm tree indifferently.
Spinoza, Hume, and Kant may also be mentioned as among those whose thinking, even when mistaken, might have done much to aid in the development of a truer theory had not the theologic atmosphere of their times been so unpropitious; but a few years after Leibnitz's death came in France a thinker in natural science of much less influence than any of these, who made a decided step forward.
Quotes with SPINOZA (3)
Naive people tend to generalize people as — -good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of these things about Einstein, but it puts the notion of perfection to rest. Perfection doesn’t exist in anyone. Nor, does a person’s mistakes make them less valuable to the world. 1. He divorced the mother of his children, which cau…
Spinoza formulated the profoundly important principle that *all determination is negation*. To determine a thing is to cut it off from some sphere of being and so to limit it. To define is to set boundaries. To say that a thing is green limits it by cutting it from the sphere of pink, blue, or other-coloured things. To say that it is good cuts it off from the sphere of evil. This limitation is the same as negation. To *affirm* that a thing is within certain limits is to *deny…
One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all theologies and all religious formulations of beliefs may still find Genesis the sublime book par excellence. Experiences and aspirations of which intimations may be found in Plato, Nietzsche, and Spinoza have found their most evocative expression in some sacred books. Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of ot…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1948–2018).