Spinoza: The Need for Purpose is Just Ego

No purpose and no meaning is our passport to freedom, but nothing frightens us more.

Therefore, just as Nature does not exist for an end, so it does not act for an end; just as there is no beginning or end to its existing, so there is no beginning or end to its acting. What is termed a "final cause" is nothing but human appetite insofar as it is considered as the starting point or primary cause of something. The Ethics, Spinoza

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