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Good and bad are not qualities of things in themselves but notions formed by comparing things with one another
Drawn from what Baruch Spinoza said
What Baruch Spinoza actually said
- Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher (1632 to 1677)
As for the terms good and bad, they indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking, or notions which we form from the comparison of things one with another.
Where this was said
↗Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883)gutenberg.org
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