Приписывается: Baruch Spinoza
«'God would say: stop praying and beating your breast; what I want you to do is go out into the world and enjoy your life…' (the so-called 'God of Spinoza')»
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Этого нет в трудах: Baruch Spinoza
A text spread on social media since the 2010s under the title 'If God Spoke' or 'The God of Spinoza'. It belongs to no work of Spinoza's: its style and personal theology (a God who speaks, loves and advises) contradict the Ethics, which denies that God has will or human affects. It is usually linked to Einstein's remark 'I believe in Spinoza's God'.
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Подлинные слова: Baruch Spinoza
«By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.»
Ética, I, definición 6 (trad. inglesa de Elwes)
«The reason or cause why God or Nature exists, and the reason why he acts, are one and the same.»
Ética, IV, prefacio (trad. inglesa de Elwes)
«Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavours to persist in its own being.»
Ética, III, proposición 6 (trad. inglesa de Elwes)