What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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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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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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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 call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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