Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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