In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
BARUCH SPINOZANo matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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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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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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