Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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