Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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