I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZAPhilosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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