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 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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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