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"if intellect and will do indeed pertain to the eternal essence of god, one must understand in the case of both these attributes something very different from the meaning widely entertained. for the intellect and will that would constitiute the essence of god would have to be vastly different from human intellect and will, and could have no point of agreement except the name. they could be no more alike than the celestial constellation of the dog and the dog that barks."

ethics, baruch spinoza. 1677.