Donald Trump vs. Baruch Spinoza
Read 20 entries attributed to Donald Trump alongside 20 attributed to Baruch Spinoza. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Donald Trump 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: religion, knowledge, justice, life, time, philosophy, mind. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Donald Trump, entry #52334: "These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This has nothing to do with r…"
Attributed to Baruch Spinoza, entry #323: "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
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Donald Trump
1945
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
"These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This ha…"
#religion"We're not entering a dark winter, we are entering the final turn and the light at the end of the tunnel"
#success"People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?"
#knowledge"When a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at…"
#knowledge"In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat. It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't b…"
#justice"No American should be forced to choose between the dictates of the federal government and the tenets of their faith."
#hope"Well, er, it wasn't, er, it wasn't very stupid, I can tell you that."
#language"I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand."
#knowledge"I never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany m…"
#life"It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy."
#time"I am the chosen one. Somebody had to do it, so I'm taking on China... and you know what we're winning."
#knowledge"Look, when I go to rallies, they turn around, they start screaming at CNN. They want to throw their placards at CNN. You know. I think you would do much bett…"
#philosophy"If you start adding it up, our real unemployment rate is 42%."
#art"We've let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do... If President Obama's goal had been to weaken America, he could not…"
#mind"She didn't know what to do, well how did you get him, uh well uh... they were sent by Russia! You know they're always using Russia"
#knowledge"Mike Flynn is a fine person, and I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it. He is a man who there was a certain amount of information given to Vic…"
#friendship"I love all people, rich or poor, but in those particular positions I just don't want a poor person."
#money"They're trying to scare everybody, from meetings, cancel the meetings, close the schools—you know, destroy the country. And that's okay, as long as we can wi…"
#knowledge"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."
#humor"The national debt has doubled. And you know the bad part about that? You think if the national debt has doubled, our infrastructure would be great, our count…"
#knowledgeBaruch 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"While Schelling was wrestling with Plato, Spinoza, and Kant, his contemporary Hegel was struggling with Spinoza exclusively. In Hegel, Spinoza reached the he…"
#time"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"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"Hegel turned fully to Spinoza only in his early Jena years during his collaboration with Schelling, who had been especially inspired by Spinoza, and who, eve…"
#religion"...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"Spinoza is the anomaly. The fact that Spinoza, atheist and damned, does not end up behind bars or burned at the stake, like other revolutionary innovators of…"
#philosophy"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"Spinoza, as George Kline tells us, was a favorite with Russian Marxists: "Spinoza has received more attention from Soviet writers than any other pre-Marxian …"
#philosophy"Nature as conceived by many ecologists, and expressed philosophically by James Lovelock and others, is not the passive, dead, value-neutral nature of mechani…"
#life"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"...But I was indeed on Spinoza's "line" by insisting with Marx and Hegel on the distinction between the "real concrete," therefore, the universal singular , …"
#knowledge"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"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"...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"The philosophy of Descartes underwent a great variety of unspeculative developments, but in Benedict Spinoza a direct successor to this philosopher may be fo…"
#philosophy