Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAPhilosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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