I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe 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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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