| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 55050 |
| QUOTATION: | Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1623–1677), Dutch pantheistic philosopher. Ethics, bk. I, prop. XV, On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, p. 55, trans. by R.H.M. Elwes, Dover, New York (1955).
Spinoza’s Ethics was one of the most revolutionary texts of modern philosophy. |
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