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 SPINOZANothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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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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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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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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