In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe 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.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAI call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZASadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZANature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZANature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZAI 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.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZAWe feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
BARUCH SPINOZAReason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZASelf-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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