If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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