Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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 by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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