God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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