Things are conceived by us as actual in two ways; either as existing in relation to a given time and place, or as contained in God and following from the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza
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- Ethics (1677), Part V, proposition 29, note; translated by R. H. M. Elwes (1883); Exact wording and attribution checked. Distinguishes temporal existence from the philosophical conception of eternity.
- Ethics (1677), Part V, proposition 29, note; translated by R. H. M. Elwes (1883)
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