The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZAI 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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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