Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
BARUCH SPINOZANo matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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