He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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