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Baruch Spinoza Quote - The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Emotion Man Master Prey
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire Philosophy Positive
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Belong Man Nature Understand
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Capacity Happiness Men Silence Speak World
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Absence Benevolence Confidence Justice Mind Peace Virtue War
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Different Inspirational Past Present Study
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Absolute Art Freedom Liberty Necessary Progress Science

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