More from Baruch Spinoza
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza 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.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza
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Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Can anybody hear me? Are my words going to waste I need to believe there was a purpose to all the pain?
Allie MillerAllie Miller The universe hears what you say, but it knows what you mean.
Brianna PastorBrianna Pastor Enough of this. The next one I love will return my passion.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor It’s unconditional; their chemistry is unconditional – forever.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett I love you so much that it hurts and that’s the problem I love you so much that it hurts.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
Mariya FedulovaMariya Fedulova Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery
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More on freedom
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Yasmine CheyenneYasmine Cheyenne I want to be free like a bird, I will fly. In you I will find freedom, for you the sky.
Abby AugustineAbby Augustine I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.
Jackie ChanJackie Chan The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.
David DeidaDavid Deida I would rather have peaceful isolation than divided freedom. Read that again.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.
Elton JohnElton John He lives as if death will never come to him, but he dies as if he had never been born.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield