Baruch Spinoza: Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the ef

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure — Baruch Spinoza

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it .

Baruch Spinoza

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