Cory Booker vs. Baruch Spinoza
Read 20 entries attributed to Cory Booker alongside 20 attributed to Baruch Spinoza. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Cory Booker alongside 20 attributed to Baruch Spinoza. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: life, knowledge, time, justice, mind, human nature, truth. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Cory Booker, entry #216106: "Cory Booker for Senate"
Attributed to Baruch Spinoza, entry #323: "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
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Cory Booker
1969
Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey.
"Cory Booker for Senate"
#books"Immediately I knew that was problematic . Because the show starts with our bios, and it starts with, ‘John Lewis, hero of the civil rights movement stood on …"
#life"Sometimes you go in the pit before you go to the palace, right? You know? And that was the story of Saint Joseph ... Martin Luther King was slain, they wrote…"
#hope"You are dipping into the Kool-aid and you do not even know the flavor ."
#knowledge"I’m not here to tell folk just what they should know, I’m here to call on folk to understand that in a moral moment, there is no neutral. In a moral moment, …"
#knowledge"Working Americans would tell you that the dignity of work is being stripped ... they are working harder than their parents and falling further behind ... whi…"
#family"The "power of the people" is greater than the "people in power" ... Change does not come from Washington, it comes to Washington."
#change"There is great dignity in work – and in America, if you want to provide for your family, you should be able to find a full-time job that pays a fair wage. Th…"
#time"I don’t think most Americans realize that the way we raise animals is such a betrayal of the heritage of our grandparents. I don’t think they realize that … …"
#life"I’m a big believer that if America, if this country hasn’t broken your heart, then you don’t love her enough. Because there’s things that are savagely wrong …"
#love"... marijuana in our country is already legal for privileged people ... the war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people."
#books"Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender."
#justice"原文：... I hear him literally say that "I don’t think we should legalize marijuana." I thought you might have been high when you said it ... marijuana in our c…"
#mind"We prove worthy of the privileges that we have not by paying anything back, but by paying it forward."
#war"We are brick city. We are like bricks themselves. We are strong. We are resilient. We are enduring."
#human nature"The reality is we have to make sure that we have a military that’s prepared, but right now, we have more military spending than the next 10, 11, 12 countries…"
#truth"Most people think that these high-density poor neighborhoods, predominately people of color, just came about through some accident of history, but they were …"
#justice"Lets you and I try to live on food stamps in New Jersey and feed a family for a week or month. U game?"
#family"We say an oath that we are a nation of liberty and justice for all, but that’s just words. It’s a civic faith, but I’m one of these people that says before y…"
#justice"We make a grave mistake when we assume this spirit of connectedness is automatic or inevitable. It is not a birthright. A united country is an enduring strug…"
#leadershipBaruch Spinoza
1632 – 1677
Baruch (de) Spinoza, also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, who was born and lived in the Dutch Republic. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture, establishing himself as one of the most important and radical philosophers of the early modern period. Influenced by Stoicism, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Ibn Tufayl, and heterodox Christians, Spinoza was a leading philosopher of the Dutch Golden Age.
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
#Human Nature"Monist is, in fact, every philosophy that is not an eclectic patchwork. Therefore, I gladly admit to you that I myself consider my positions even more monist…"
#philosophy"The attention that literary artists have lavished on Spinoza is remarkable. Writers have not only shaped their aesthetics by reflection on Spinoza, have not …"
#art"When we read Spinoza, we are seized with a feeling like that of seeing nature at its grandest in most vigorous repose: a forest of thoughts, tall as the sky,…"
#nature"In February of 1927, the historian Joseph Klausner stood before an audience at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and delivered a lecture on the “Jewish characte…"
#justice"It is also a very curious thing. Why should a 17th-century Portuguese-Jewish philosopher whose dense and opaque writings are notoriously difficult to underst…"
#truth"Immortality in Spinoza"
#death"In the year 1888, before leaving the Normal School to face the experiences of actual life, he wrote Credo quia verum. This is a remarkable document, a spirit…"
#religion"Today I have been reading Linné again and am quite unnerved by this extraordinary man. I have learned an infinite amount from him, not just in botany. Outsid…"
#knowledge"The very starting-point of Spinoza, the search and discovery of the cause of causes, is hateful to Kant, who states that scientists err when they follow this…"
#knowledge"...They have had the most painful history of all peoples, not without the fault of all of us, and when one owes to them the noblest man , the purest sage , t…"
#power"Hegel is an admirable 'theoretician' of ideology insofar as he is a 'theoretician' of Universal Recognition who unfortunately ends up in the ideology of Abso…"
#knowledge"Good European" that he is, Spinoza takes from the Jewish tradition the common property of European ideas that it conveyed to him — and nothing else. Thus we …"
#justice"The philosophy of a purely theoretical thinker, who contemplates all things from the point of view of things in themselves, belongs in the same class as the …"
#time"...We may deny his conclusions; we may consider his system of thought preposterous and even pernicious, but we cannot refuse him the respect which is the rig…"
#mind"The encounter between the two greatest philosophers of the seventeenth century in fact extended over several days. From a letter Leibniz posted to the Duke o…"
#time"Spinoza's teachings were already known outside of Holland during the final years of his life . So fast did his fame spread that at a time when no Jew could o…"
#knowledge"...Subsequently, he discovered a third master, a liberator of his faith. This was Spinoza, whose acquaintance he made during an evening spent alone at school…"
#life"Spinoza: the absolute philosopher, whose Ethics is the foremost book on concepts."
#ethics"In defining thought as an attribute Spinoza towered above any representative of mechanistic materialism and was at least two centuries in advance of his time…"
#mind