Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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