"Et consequenter quod substantia cogitans et substantia extensa una eademque est substantia, quae iam sub hoc, iam sub illo attributo comprehenditur."
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Substance thinking and substance extended are one and the same substance, comprehended now through one attribute, now through the other. — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Part 2, Prop. 7, Scholium (Dover 1955 p. 86)
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