Baruch Spinoza quote about God from Ethics - The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.
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The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.
 Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677). copy citation

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Author Baruch Spinoza
Source Ethics
Topic God knowledge essence
Date 1677
Language English
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Note Translated by R. H. M. Elwes
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm

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“Wherefore, that, which gives knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God, is common to all, and is equally in the part and in the whole; therefore (II. xxxviii.) this knowledge will be adequate. Q.E.D.
PROP. XLVII. The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.
Proof.—The human mind has ideas (II. xxii.) , from which (II. xxiii.) it perceives itself and its own body (II. xix.) and external bodies (II. XVI. Coroll.” source

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