What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
BARUCH SPINOZAA free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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 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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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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