Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZAI have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
-
-
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZA