Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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