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Quotation from Ethics by Baruch Spinoza

“PROP. III. An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof”

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics, Part V, Prop. III, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)

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The first and best-known remedy for the passions: knowledge transforms passive affect into activity.

Citation: "PROP. III. An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof" — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Part V, Prop. III, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883). (id ethics-q12)

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