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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.

Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.

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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Faith Obedience Philosophy Save Truth
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Freedom One Liner Reason
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue

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