When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
BARUCH SPINOZAWe feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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