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True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

Source:Part IV, Proposition LXII, Note
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  • Book: Ethics
  • Writer: Baruch Spinoza
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Published: 1677
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