Nancy Pelosi vs. Baruch Spinoza
Read 20 entries attributed to Nancy Pelosi alongside 20 attributed to Baruch Spinoza. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Nancy Pelosi 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: time, knowledge, mind, justice, life, human nature, truth. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Nancy Pelosi, entry #125179: "everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access."
Attributed to Baruch Spinoza, entry #323: "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
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Nancy Pelosi
1940
Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first female elected speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, heading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. Her 20 years as a House party leader are tied with Joe Martin's as the second-longest after Sam Rayburn.
"everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access."
#health"Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern , the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ir…"
#time"A brazen invitation for something like this to happen"
#writing"A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
#gender"As many of you know, I come from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one—it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means."
#knowledge"Am I going to have to use my ‘Mother of Five Voice’ to be heard?" -Quoted in the October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek"
#family"China would prefer Joe Biden, whether they do, that's their conclusion, that they would prefer Joe Biden. Russia is actively, 24/7 interfering in our electio…"
#mind"I have ordered the flags at the Capitol lowered to half-staff in Officer Sicknick’s honor. The sacrifice of Officer Sicknick reminds us of our obligation to…"
#time"I have said to people when they ask me, if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain would be our commitment to our aid, I don’t e…"
#mind"The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then yo…"
#justice"You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation…"
#life"Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House."
#gender"Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped."
"You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. Bu…"
#Human Nature"I ask that you immediately cease plans to improperly install Michael Ellis as the new NSA General Counsel"
#wisdom"Getting back to our Founders — in the darkest days of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote: "The times have found us." The times found them to fight f…"
#politics"hey had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true."
#truth"With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a …"
#hope"I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table."
#language"I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush …"
#hopeBaruch 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"...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"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"In view of these facts, the assertion is justified that Spinoza's influence on the cultural process of his own race in modern times was almost as powerful as…"
#life"...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"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"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 attention that literary artists have lavished on Spinoza is remarkable. Writers have not only shaped their aesthetics by reflection on Spinoza, have not …"
#art"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"Spinoza formulated the problem of the socially patterned defect very clearly. He says: "Many people are seized by one and the same affect with great consiste…"
#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