Spinoza avers that blessedness comes only from a certain kind of knowledge-specifically, the "knowledge of the union that the mind has with the whole of Nature." (Baruch Spinoza)

Spinoza avers that blessedness comes only from a certain kind of knowledge-specifically, the "knowledge of the union that the mind has with the whole of Nature."

Baruch Spinoza

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