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"Blessedness", reads the last proposition of Spinoza’s book, "is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself". And perhaps in the like manner, immortality is not the reward of clear thinking, it is clear thought itself, as it carries up the past into the present and readies out into the future, so overcoming the limits and narrowness of time, and catching the perspective that remains eternally behind the kaleidoscope of change; such thought is immortal because every truth is a permanent creation, part of the eternal acquisition of man, influencing him endlessly. ~ Excerpt from "The Story of Philosophy" By: Will Durant. Expanding on ideas from "The Ethics" By: Baruch Spinoza 1632-1677
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:22:51 +0000

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