| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 55046 |
| QUOTATION: | Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1623–1677), Dutch pantheistic philosopher. Ethics, bk. I, prop. Xxxiii, On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, p. 70, 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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